Special occasions, the occasion must be special from the point of view of the broad considerations of national solemnity, public order, homage to national figures, the likelihood of eruption of inebriate violence on certain days on account of melas, festivals or frenzied situations or periods of tension. 'Special occasions' cannot be equated with fanciful occasions but such as promote the policy of the statue, P.N. Kaushal v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 1457: (1978) 3 SCC 558: (1979) 1 SCR 122.
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