JUDGMENT

Rajbir Sehrawat, J. (Oral) - The most simple language always provides widest playground to fertile minds to assign it variety of meanings. This process of linguistic interpolation always runs the risk of finding such frontiers of such a language or assigning it such a meaning; which framer of such a language might not have contemplated in his wildest dreams. In the field of judicial interpretations as well, although the golden rule is to read the language as it is; and if the language of statute is clear, then to assign it the meaning which it conveys in plain and simple terms, however, the statute being a linguistic tool; the more simple language contained in it, is also amenable to the linguistic violence, sometimes by way of interpretation and sometimes even to keep at bay some unintend consequences of something else, which may not have even a remote connection to the language of the said statutory provision. The language of Section 156(3) Cr.P.C., though is as simple as it could have been, yet seems to have fallen pray to the fear of unknown in its applied interpretations. That unknown is the fear arising out of a demon of the Indian system of administration of criminal