Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 500 · Decided 29 July 2013
Devendra Kumar v. State of Uttaranchal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 500 · [2013] 8 S.C.R. 471
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1155/2006
- Decided
- 29 July 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
Service Law - Termination of service - On account of suppression of the fact of pendency of criminal case - Held: A B Where an applicant gets an office by misrepresenting the facts C by playing fraud upon competent authority, such order cannot be sustained in the eye of law - Material Information would amount to moral turpitude and is separate and distinct from the involvement in -a Criminal case - The services of the appellant rightly D terminated~ Maxims: 'fraus et jus nunguam cohabitant' - Applicability of. 'Subia fundamento cedit opus' - Applicability of. 'Nullus Commodum Capere
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