Kamal Kumar Dutta & Anr vs Ruby General Hospital Ltd. & Ors on 11 August, 2006
To hold otherwise
would run contrary to the plain intendment, as well as the object
and underlying purpose of Section 100-A. A similar submission
was expressly rejected by the Supreme Court in Kamal Kumar
Dutta v. Ruby General Hospital (supra). In introducing the
amended provisions of Section 100A, the legislature was
concerned as much with the existing backlog of cases as the
accretion to the backlog that would accrue by the institution of
fresh cases after the amended provisions were brought into
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force. Consequently, it would be unreasonable to attribute to the
legislature the intendment that while seeking to bring into effect
a provision which was intended to cure the delays of litigation,
the legislature would have intended to exempt from its purview
all cases which have filed prior to the date on which the
amendment was brought into force.