Dwarka Prasad vs Dwarka Das Saraf on 11 August, 1975
In DWARKA PRASAD v. DWARKA DAS8, the Hon'ble
Supreme Court has held that a proviso must be
limited to the subject matter of enacting clause and
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not being a separate or independent enactment. It was
further held that 'words are dependent on the
principal enacting words, to which they are tacked as
a proviso, and cannot be read as divorced from their
context'.