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Shall

Shall, a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the … v. Azad Bharat Finance Co., (1966) (Supp) SCR 473: (1967) 1 SCJ 815. Shall, in a statute, though generally taken in a mandatory sense, does not necessarily mean that in every case it shall have that effect,

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