sick persons, factory
workers and labourers, busy business people or public
functionaries are to be given the benefit of the said
provision unless, as stated ... person.
vi) Factory workers and labourers.
vii) Busy business people or public
functionaries.
viii) Corporate employees.
(B) The aforesaid categories are illustrative and not
exhaustive
same would 'ordinarily' be
mandatory, but when a public functionary was
required to perform a public function within a
specified time, the same ... time prescribed. When it came
to a compliance by a public functionary, the
expression 'shall' should be ordinarily treated as
directory unless
other
employees of the Plaintiff No.1 including the lawyers and public
functionaries, cannot be permitted, especially at the behest of a person, who
appears ... account of disparaging, vitriolic and derogatory
speech, particularly when made by public functionaries
and/or public figures. This does not in any way imply
that
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covered by laws governing bribery and corruption when all other
public functionaries are subject to such laws.
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about exercising the same
fearlessly no doubt with bona fides as public
functionaries can act only bona fide. In fact, the
requirement of the action ... available to a
public servant accused of the commission of an offence. It
was further observed that public functionaries cannot under
the cloak of purported
consideration(s) qua the mandatory nature of timelines
prescribed upon a public functionary observed as under:
“42. We are not oblivious of the law that ... when a public
functionary is required to do a certain thing within a
specified time, the same is ordinarily directory but it is
equally well
