Supreme Court of India

Yashoda (alias Sodhan) v. Sukhwinder Singh and Others

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Bench B.R. Gavai and C. T. Ravikumar JJ.
Decided 12 September 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that such a statement was made as a trickery so as to obtain the judgment by misleading the court.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Suit: Suppression of material fact – Dismissal of the previous suit as withdrawn without liberty and this fact not presented before the Court in a subsequent suit – Effect of – On facts, plaintiff initially filed a suit for declaration against the appellant/defendant which came to be dismissed as withdrawn – Thereafter, the plaintiff filed suit for specific performance on the basis of alleged agreement to sell without disclosing the fact of earlier suit – Trial court dismissed the suit on the ground that the past litigation has direct bearing on the merits of the present controversy and the…

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