🏛️ The Great Legal Puzzle: When Words Don't Match Intent

🌟 Imagine a park sign saying "No vehicles allowed" - does that ban toy cars? Ambulances saving lives? This exact dilemma happened with India's land acquisition laws, creating a legal maze that affected thousands of families and major infrastructure projects.

💡 What You'll Discover:

• 🔍 How purposive construction helps courts look beyond mere words to find true intent
• ⚖️ Why the Supreme Court chose Section 4(1) over Section 6 as the "starting point"
• 🎯 The delicate balance between landowner rights and national development
• 🧠 How judges become detectives, searching for Parliament's real intentions

🚀 Real Cases Discussed:

• 💎 Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. vs. Shri Deepak Agarwal - The landmark case that clarified when land acquisition "begins"
• ⭐ Land Acquisition Act 1894 vs. Right to Fair Compensation Act 2013 - When old meets new in the legal world

🔥 Why This Matters to You:

• 🏠 Learn how property rights and development projects get balanced
• 📚 Understand how beneficial laws get interpreted to help people, not hurt them
• ⚡ See how courts prevent absurd outcomes from literal interpretations

🎙️ This episode transforms a complex Supreme Court judgment into an engaging story about how law adapts to serve justice - not just follow rigid rules!