Lacuna Left By Legislature Cannot Be Filled By Judicial Interpretation: SC [Read Judgment]
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7 Nov 2019 9:13 PM IST
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"It is not for the Courts to remedy the defect in the Statute."
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7 Nov 2019 9:13 PM IST
The Supreme Court has observed that if the legislature has left a lacuna, it is not open for the Courts to fill it on some presumed intention of the legislature. The bench comprising Justice L Nageswara and Justice Hemant Gupta was considering an appeal against Armed Forces Tribunal's interpretation of a regulation in Navy (Pension) Regulations, 1964. The bench observed that the reading of...
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