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Definition :

Place of residence, the expression 'place of resi-dence' connotes a place where a person has his dwelling house, which need not necessarily be permanent or exclusive. A person may have more places of residence than one at a given time. A place occupied by a person with the intention of setting up a fixed, though not permanent, abode, would be deemed to be a place of residence. Sojourn for a purely temporary purpose will not constitute residence, and the place of sojourn will not be deemed a place of residence within the meaning of the Act: but where a person possesses establishment at more places than oneand spends time more or less considerable in all those places, as exigencies of his occupation, vocation or fancy demand, he would be deemed to have a place of residence at each of those places. The words of the definition in s. 2(10) read with s. 2(6) are sufficiently wide to include the case of a person who had a place of residence in India as well as a place of residence in an area forming part of Pakistan, provided that such person was displaced from the latter residence because of the setting up of the Dominions or on account of civil disturbances or fear of such disturbances, Sukh Lal v. State Bank of India, AIR 1967 SC 543 (546): (1967) 1 SCR 317. [Displaced Persons Debts Adjustment Act, 1951, s. 2(6), (10)]