In K.P. Varghese v. Income Tax Officer (1981), the Supreme Court said that the court may modify the…

K.P. Varghese allows the court to modify the language, or even "do some violence" to it, so as to avoid an absurd result that the legislature could not have intended. Disagreement with the policy of a law is never a ground; the departure is justified only to avoid absurdity and achieve the obvious intention.