Jagir Singh vs Ranbir Singh & And on 9 November, 1978
“It is a settled proposition of law that what cannot be done directly,
is not permissible to be done obliquely, meaning thereby, whatever is
prohibited by law to be done, cannot legally be effected by an
indirect and circuitous contrivance on the principle of “quando
aliquid prohibetur, prohibetur et omne per quod devenitur ad illud”.
An authority cannot be permitted to evade a law by “shift or
contrivance”.” (See also: Jagir Singh v. Ranbir Singh, AIR 1979 SC
381; A.P. Diary Dev.