Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 181 · Decided 17 March 2004
M/S. S.J.S. Business Enterprises (P) LTD. v. State of Bihar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 181 · [2004] 3 S.C.R. 56
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1650/2004
- Decided
- 17 March 2004
- Bench
- RUMA PAL, P. VENKATARAMA REDDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226; Income Tax Act
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 226-Writ petition-Suppression of material facts-Effect on C maintainability of-Petitioner filed a civil suit for certain reliefa-Thereafter, petitioner filed a writ petition seeking same reliefs without disclosing the fact of filing of the civil suit-High Court facts-Correctness of-Held: As a general rule, suppression of a material fact disqualified a litigant from obtaining any relief- D But the suppressed fact must be a material one which, had it not been suppressed, would have had an effect on the merits of the case-Filing of a suit was not such
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