According to the rule of interpretation known as noscitur a sociss where two or more words, which are suscep­tible of analogous meaning, are coupled together, they are understood to be used in their cognate sense. They take, as it were, their colour from each other, the meaning of the more general being restricted to a sense analogous to that of the less general (See Page 289 Maxwell on The Interpretation of Statutes, 12th edition). "A statutory term is recognized by its associated words. This latin maxim noscitur a sociss states this contextual prin­ciple, whereby a word or phrase is not to be con­strued as if it stood alone but in the light of the sur­roundings" (See Bennion on Statutory Interpreta­tion, P1225, 4th edition). In Rahit Pulp Paper Mills Vs. Collector of Central Excise, AIR 1991 SC 754 it has been settled that the words used in a statute takes colour from the words accompanying or associated with them. (Obaidul Kader (Md.) Vs. State, 2011, 40 CLC (HCD) [7527])