appears to us
that by oversight or due to a drafting error care was not
taken while framing Section 8 of Act XXlll ... Section 8 of Act XXIII of 1957 the legislature corrected the drafting error and added those words to Section 16 after deleting them from Section
held to be correction of an obvious drafting error based on gender discrimination. The said amending act brings the granddaughter (daughter of a son) (married
view to make a statute workable the Court has corrected obvious drafting errors. The Court in suitable cases may add or omit or substitute words
will not be accepted except for compelling reasons such as obvious drafting errors. ( See- State of U.P. and Ors. v. Vijay Anand Maharaj ; Rananjaya
will not be accepted except for compelling reasons such as obvious drafting errors. (See State of U.P. and others vs. Vijay Anand Maharaj
will not be accepted except for compelling reasons such as obvious drafting error. These principles are supported by the law laid down
legislature, on the presumption that certain words were, due to drafting error, omitted. The words "other sums" shall thus include any amount
Clause (b) has been some how missed. It is an apparent drafting error or accidental omission of the word "or". In various other
incorporated.
24. There can be no dispute in that there are drafting errors in 1973 Amendment. When revisions always lay and were ... Consequently, these words cannot be excluded from consideration and the proviso as drafted will have to be considered as a whole and given a proper
contention of the petitioner's Counsel is that due to drafting error, it has been incorrectly mentioned in Paragraph 6 that the petitioner
