Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 353 · Decided 10 August 2001
Pallav Sheth v. Custodian and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 353 · [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 387
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2106/2001
- Decided
- 10 August 2001
- Bench
- B.N. KIRPAL, RUMA PAL, BRIJESH KUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 215, 129; Limitation Act Section 17, 29(2)
Headnote
B Contempt of Courts Act, 1971-Sections 20 and 22-lnterim order of Special Court to appellant not to alienate, encumber, sell or transfer his movable or immovable assets, including bank accounts-Appellant set up C benami companies and transferred and/or alienated his properties including cash in for initiation of contempt proceedings filed by Custodian-Period of limitation of action for contempt-Held, on facts, fraud had been committed by the appellant-Benefit of /imitation cannot be claimed by virtue of fraud-Period of limitation starts from the date of D knowledge and
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