Contract and Effect of Time on Contract : Supreme Court Explains the Legal Position
The argument was accepted that "even where the parties have expressly provided that time of the essence of the contract such a stipulation will have to be read along with other provisions of the contract and such other provisions may, on construction of the contract, exclude the inference that the completion of the work by a particular date was intended to be fundamental."
Padmakumari v. Dasayyan [2015] GCtR 6570 (SC)