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Definition :

Procure, means to obtain, or get by care; effort or the use of special means; to procure evidence; to bring about especially by unscrupulous and indirect means; to procure secret documents; to obtain (women or girls) for the purpose of prostitution; to act as a procurer or pimp, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edn., p. 1147.

Means to take care of; to get possession of; obtain; to get and make available for promiscuous perusal intercourse; to bring about; achieve; to procure women, Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.

The word 'procure' has been defined in the Century Dictionary to mean 'to obtain, as by request, loan, effort, labour, or purchase; get; gain; come into possession of'. It has been defined in the Oxford English Dictionary to mean 'to gain, win, get possession of, acquire'. This is the correct meaning of the word as used in sub-s. (5) of s. 123 of the Act; Balwan Singh v. Prakash Chand, AIR 1976 SC 1187 (1193): (1976) 3 SCR 335: (1976) 2 SCC 440 (447). [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 123 (5)]