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Lilavati Bai vs The State Of Bombay on 5 March, 1957

9. It is the first of the principles of construction of statutes that the words should be given their plain and natural meaning. It was observed in Lilawati Bai v. Bombay State. AIR 1957 SC 521 (529) that where the context and the object and mischief of the enactment do not require restricted meaning to be attached to words of general import, the Court must give those words their plain and ordinary meaning.
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