https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180180 A purposive construction of the telegraph rules was applied to permit disconnection for non-payment of dues where the defaulting subscriber was economically dependent on another household member. Rule 443 was not confined to a strictly literal meaning of "subscriber"; on the facts, the wife's line was treated as being within the appellant's economic control, so default on her dues justified action against his telephone lines. The decision distinguished cases involving economically independent relatives who pay their own bills, and upheld the disconnection as consistent with the object of securing prompt payment of telephone dues. en-us Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:50:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180180 A purposive construction of the telegraph rules was applied to permit disconnection for non-payment of dues where the defaulting subscriber was economically dependent on another household member. Rule 443 was not confined to a strictly literal meaning of "subscriber"; on the facts, the wife's line was treated as being within the appellant's economic control, so default on her dues justified action against his telephone lines. The decision distinguished cases involving economically independent relatives who pay their own bills, and upheld the disconnection as consistent with the object of securing prompt payment of telephone dues. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180180