all words be given due importance

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 9828 OF 2013

D.A.V. COLLEGE TRUST AND

MANAGEMENT SOCIETY & ORS.                    …APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC 

INSTRUCTIONS & ORS.                              …RESPONDENT(S)

With

CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 9844­9845 OF 2013

CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 9846­9857 OF 2013

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 9860 OF 2013

8.     It is a well settled statutory rule of interpretation that when in

the definition clause a meaning is given to certain words then that

meaning alone will have to be given to those words.  However, when

the definition clause contains the words ‘means and includes’ then

both these words must be given the emphasis required and one word

cannot override the other.