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Definition :

Direction, the rule of law in a case given to a jury. See DIRECT.

The direction is a direction which the appellate or revisional authority, as the case may be, is empowered to give under the section, ITO v. Murlidhar Bhagwandas, AIR 1965 SC 342: (1964) 6 SCR 411.

It must be an express direction necessary for the disposal of the case before the authority or court. It must also be a direction which the authority or court is empowered to give while deciding the case before it, Rajinder Nath v. C.I.T., AIR 1979 SC 1933 (1935). [Income-tax Act, 1961, s. 153(3)(ii)]

A direction may mean an order issued to a particular individual or a precept which many may have to follow. It may be a specific or a general order, Kanhiya Lal Omar v. R.K. Trivedi, AIR 1986 SC 111 (118): (1985) 4 SC 628.

The word 'direction' in the context of users of the road or motorists on the road should invariably only mean, to show the way or path towards an object or point or indicate the route for a destination. A direction in a particular context may even be an instruction simpliciter to guide and need not always mean a command to obey or carry out implicitly only the instruction, Municipal Corpn. of Greater Bombay v. Bharat Petroleum Corpn. Ltd., (2002) 4 SCC 219 (227). [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1988 (3 of 1988)]