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Ambiguity cannot be created artificially:-- If there is ambiguity in the terms of the statute, recourse must natural be had to the well established principles of construction but it is not permissible first to create and artificial ambiguity and then try to resolve the ambiguity and resort to some general or special principle of construction . I.T. Commr. v. Indo Bank, AIR 1959 SC 713. The court cannot add words to a section unless the section as it stands is meaningless or of doubtful meaning. British India General Insurance v. Capt Itbar Singh , AIR 1959 SC 133.