Concealment of evidence /facts from court amounts to fraud with court
It is a settled proposition of law that where an applicant gets an office by misrepresenting the facts or by playing fraud upon the competent authority, such an order cannot be sustained in the eyes of law. "Fraud avoids all judicial acts, ecclesiastical or temporal." (Vide: S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu (Dead) by LRs. v. Jagannath (Dead) by LRs. & Ors., AIR 1994 SC 853. In Lazarus Estate Ltd. v. Besalay, 1956 All E.R. 349, the Court observed without equivocation that "no judgment of a Court, no order of a Minister can be allowed to stand if it has been obtained by fraud, for fraud unravels everything."
Devendra Kumar Vs. State of Uttaranchal & Ors.
[Civil Appeal No. 1155 of 2006]
Dr. B. S. CHAUHAN, J.
Citation: AIR2013SC3325, (2013)9SCC363,
Dated;July 29, 2013
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