TMI Blog1955 (4) TMI 45X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... h. He was transferred from the district. Some residents of Pratapgarh did not like this transfer. A notice was printed on 2-4-1953, in which it was announced that a meeting of the residents of Pratapgarh would be held to oppose this order of transfer. The names of the Press as well as the Printer were not printed on the notice. The place where the notice was printed was also not printed in the notice. The matter was investigated by a C. I. D. Inspector, who took the permission of the District Magistrate for doing so. In the course of his investigations, he found that this notice was printed at the Avadh Press and it was printed by the opposite party, who was the Assistant Manager of that Press. The opposite party was placed before a Magi ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e proper course is to interpret it in its ordinary and natural meaning. But the difficulty in this case is that that if the natural meaning is given to the word 'paper' it would lead to absurd and ridiculous results. As observed by Beaumont, C. J. in -- 'Dattatraya Malhar v. Emperor AIR 1937 Bom 28 (B): The Advocate General argues that the only meaning which can be given to the expression paper printed' is that it includes every piece of paper on which any letter, figure or sign is printed, and that every such piece of paper falls within the mischief aimed at by the Act...... If the contention of the Advocate General be correct as to the meaning of 'paper' it would seem to follow that offences against. Section 3 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... copies of books. This is further illustrated from the statement of Objects and Reasons given in the Gazette of 1867, at page 191. Extracts from these Objects and Reasons are as follows : It has for many years been the endeavour of the authorities to make a collection of the books and other publications emaciating from the various printing presses at work throughout the country. It was an instruction of the late court of Directors of the East India Company that copies of every important and interesting work published should be despatched to England to be deposited in the habrary of the India House. ........ .in the province of Lower Bengal at least, there has been of late years very great activity in the literary world and every year sho ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... egulation of papers containing news which are intended to be circulated and, in my opinion, the word 'papers' in sections 3 and 4 of the Act are clearly papers of this description and are practically, if not exactly, synonymous with the word 'newspaper' as defined in section 1 of the Act itself. With deep respect for the Judges who gave this decision, we think that the word 'paper' in Section 9 of the Act is not synonymous with the word 'newspaper', because the Act has used the word 'newspaper' distinctly in several sections of the enactment and bas even defined it. In our opinion the word 'paper' was really intended to cover all those papers which could not be defined as 'books' o ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... surd and ridiculous results. We have also given our opinion that in the context of the enactment, the word 'printed paper' means a paper which is of cultural, historical or literary value. We have also mentioned the interpretation and the meaning given to the word 'paper' by Courtney-Terrel C. J., according to which 'the word 'paper' as used in Section 3 of this Act is almost synonymous with the word newspapers . It is therefore, clean that the word 'paper' used in the Act is so vague that it is not possible to interpret it. We may have our own interpretation of the word, but we cannot be sure that that interpretation is correct. It may be that the word 'printed paper' means a paper printed fo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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