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Promulgate, connotes two ideas: (i) making known of an order; and (ii) the means by which the order is made known must be by something done openly and in public. It may be by beat of drum; it may be by publication in the Gazette; it may be by reading out an order openly in public. An order duly pronounced in open court must be deemed to be duly promulgated, so far as the parties to the case are concerned, State v. M. Tugla, AIR 1955 All 423: 1955 Cr LJ 111.