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Impossible or impermissible, In Words and Phrases (Permanent Edn., Vol. 20, pp. 460-61) it is stated that the term 'impossible' may sometimes be synonymous with 'impracticable'; 'impractic-able' means 'not practicable', incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed or at command; 'impracticable' is defined as incapable of being effected from lack of adequate means, impossible of performance, not feasible; 'impracticable' means impossible or un-reasonably difficult of performance, and is a much stronger term than 'expedient'. In The Law Lexicon (P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 2nd Edn., p. 889) one of the meanings assigned to impracticable is ''not possible' or 'not feasible'; at any rate it means something very much more than 'not reasonably practicable''. In the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998, at p. 918), impracticable (of a course of action) is defined to mean 'impossible in practise to do or carry out'. The same dictionary states the usage of the term in these words - 'Although there is considerable overlap, impractic-able and impractical are not used in exactly the same way. Impracticable means 'impossible to carry out' and is normally used for a specific procedure or course of action, .... Impractical, on the other hand, tends to be used in more general senses, often to mean simply 'unrealistic' or 'not sensible'', Union of India v. Harjeet Singh Sandhu, AIR 2001 SC 1772 (1786): (2001) 5 SCC 593.