Attachment of property - eviction notice provides only ten days ...

Court Upholds 10-Day Eviction for Money Laundering; Statutory Interpretation Not Applied Without Ambiguity or Absurdity.

October 21, 2022

Case Laws     Money Laundering     HC

Attachment of property - eviction notice provides only ten days time to the petitioner to vacate the subject property - Even if there is a defect or omission in the Statute the Court cannot correct the defect or supply the omission. It is only in certain set of circumstances when the language of the Statute is not clear, ambiguous and throws up absurd results, the resort can be had to the principles of statutory interpretation to construe such statute. The domains of “reading into” and “reading down” the Statute may come into play. - HC

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