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Hardship cannot alter the meaning:- If certain meaning is clear on the face of a particular provision , the question of hardship or inconvenience is irrelevant and these factors cannot be used to give different meanings to the plain language. Commissioner of agricultural income Tax v. keshav Chandra. AIR 1950 SC 65; 1950 SCR 435. The argument about the inconvenience and hardship is dangerous one and is only admissible in construction where the meaning of the statute is obscure and the consequences of the provision may cause good deal of hardship to many persons. But this is not a proper matter to influence the court unless in a doubtful case affording foothold on balanced speculation as to the probable intention of the legislature . The proper forum for getting the hardship removed is the legislature and not the courts. Morvi Bank v. Union, AIR 1965 SC 1954.