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Similarly, in the other writ petitions dealt with in Pooran Mals case, the Court opined : .The search and seizure, therefore, impugned in this illega l. writ petition cannot be regarded as ( Emphasis supplied ) The Judgement in Pooran Mals case (supra) has to be considered in the context in which it was rendered. It is well-settled proposition of law that a decision is an authority for what it decides and not that everything said therein constitutes a precedent. The courts are obliged to employ an intelligent technique in the use of precedents bearing it in mind that a decision of the court takes its colour from the questions involved in the case in which it was rendered. In C.I.T. v. Sun Engineering Works (P) Ltd., (1992) 4 SCC 363, this Court rightly pointed out : It is neither desirable nor permissible to pick out a word or a sentence from the judgment of this Court, divorced from the context of the question under consideration and treat it to be the complete law declared by this Court. The judgment must be read as a whole and the observations from the judgment have to be considered in the light of the questions which were before this Court. A decision of this Court takes its colour from the questions involved in the case in which it is rendered and while applying the decision to a later case, the courts must carefully try to ascertain the true principle laid down by the decision of this Court and not to pick out words or sentences from the judgment, divorced from the context of the questions under consideration by this Court, to support their reasonings.