IOCL's Decision Quashed by High Court
In an interesting case, the IOCL's action was quashed.
In David Brahma v State of Assam [2016] GCtR 4346 (Gauhati), it was held "in Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary (5th Edition), the word “locality” is defined to mean, amongst others, “a district or area, especially one near or surrounding”, whereas the word “location” is defined to mean “a place or position”. Thus, the word “locality” seems to have a wider connotation than the word “location” and the advertisement designedly and consciously used the expression “location or locality”. If both the words carry the same meaning, there would have been no occasion for the IOCL authorities to have used both the expressions “location” or “locality”. The purpose was to enlarge the area of the location to bring within its fold the neighbourhood areas."
"A few feet or several hundred yards or even a greater distance from an object would be in its neighbourhood and no mathematical formula has been fixed to define and measure neighbourhood, which has an element of flexibility in it."
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