with safety both to themselves and their characters."
12. With these prefatory observations, may now briefly recapitulate the relevant facts and circumstances
disputed handwriting and whether in Abe absence of such a prefatory clarification, the evidence would not be admissible. Indeed Supreme Court did not choose
discuss the question of applicability of rules of natural justice with these prefatory remarks :-
"..... Natural justice is a great humanising principle intended to invest
order to raise additional revenue as is made abundantly
clear by the prefatory note and the extract from the
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recommendations and would impose penalty on such delinquent official. The prefatory wordings of Regulation 14A indicate that it is a special procedure envisaged in respect
raises interesting questions where force of law is tested.
2, With this prefatory remark, we proceed to analyse the events which have
question without the consideration of irrelevant or extraneous Matters.
4. With these prefatory observations, let me now examine the validity, of the reasons given
since the malice of mass-copying is spreading like cancer. With these prefatory remarks, we proceed to state the matrix of facts.
2. Om Prakash
scope and
scheme of the Act.
12. We find it from the prefatory note of the "Statement of Objects and Reasons" appended
para 2)
"2. A prefatory caveat. When examining a legislation from
the angle of its vires, the Court has to be resilient, not rigid