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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Ajay Sura | TNN

Dera chief’s furlough: Not for court to correct ambiguity in law, says HC

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that in case of any ambiguity in the words used by the legislature in enactment of a statute, the court would not go to its aide to correct the same.

HC has also held that the “legislature has to be interpreted in the manner to understand its true spirit and the intention of the legislature has to be read in the manner it is written”.

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