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Devendra Kumar v. State of Uttaranchal & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 8 S.C.R. 471
Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and S.A. Bobde JJ.
Decided 29 July 2013

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What the Court ordered

Held as under:- ·Fraud and collusion vitiate even the most solemn proceedings in any civilized system of jurisprudence.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Service Law - Termination of service - On account of suppression of the fact of pendency of criminal case - Held: Where an applicant gets an office by misrepresenting the facts by playing fraud upon competent authority, such order cannot be sustained in the eye of law - Material Information sought by the employer, if not disclosed, would amount to moral turpitude and is separate and distinct from the involvement in -a Criminal case - The services of the appellant rightly terminated~ Maxims: 'fraus et jus nunguam cohabitant' - Applicability of. 'Subia fundamento cedit opus' - Applicability of.

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Of those, 4 relied on · 2 referred to

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