It is high time those who print and publish statutes and statutory instruments are extra cautious, or else, they run the risk of being hauled up for contempt of court, perjury, and such offences for printing books with wrong provisions of the laws, the High Court of Karnataka has cautioned the publishers.
In addition, the Court said that the publishers would also run the risk of being blacklisted from public tenders for the supply of books of their publication for publishing the law books with mistakes.
“It goes without saying that if for the ‘mistake of law’, none should suffer, none should suffer for the ‘mistake of law publisher’ too,” observed a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice Krishna S. Dixit.
