Gururaj D. Devarhubli, Assistant Professor, Institute of Law, Nirma University & Bushra Sarfaraj Patel, B.A.LL.B., Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
ABSTRACT
A legislature drafts laws with the utmost care while keeping in mind the about present, future, and exceptional circumstances like a pandemic or natural disasters. However, the legislature always leaves lacunae in the law for the purpose to broaden the scope of the law and to implement law better on a precedent basis. In order to harmonize the differences in the legislature, it is pertinent to construct a doctrine so as to balance such repugnancies, redundancies and anomalies in the law, legislation or statute which is also known as the 'doctrine of harmonious construction. This research paper broadly studies the origin or history of the doctrine, its salient features, landmark decisions, and critical analysis of the doctrine. The researcher has utilized a plethora and judicious mix of primary and secondary data to back-up her findings in the research work.
