Defeat the provision of law - Indian Laws - General

Defeat the provision of law In Pollock Mulla in Mulla Indian Contract and Specific Relief Acts, 13th Edition, Volume-I published by LexisNexis Butterworths, it is stated at page 668: The words defeat the provisions of any law must be taken as limited to defeating the intention which the legislature has expressed, or which is necessarily implied from the express terms of an Act. It is unlawful to contract to do that which it is unlawful to do; but an agreement will not be void, merely because it tends to defeat some purpose ascribed to the legislature by conjecture, or even appearing, as a matter of history, from extraneous evidence, such as legislative debates or preliminary memoranda, not forming part of the enactment. UOI VERSUS L.S.N. MURTHY AND ORS. - 2011 (11) TMI 851 - SUPREME COURT