Supreme Court of India

Yashoda (alias Sodhan) v. Sukhwinder Singh and Others

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Reported as [2022] 12 S.C.R. 31
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Suit: Suppression of material fact – Dismissal of the pre vious suit as withdrawn without liberty and this fact not presented b efore the Court in a subsequent suit – Effect of – On facts, pl aintiff initially filed a suit for declaration against the appellant/def endant which came to be dismissed as withdrawn – Thereafter, the pl aintiff filed suit for specific performance on the basis of alleged agreement to sell without disclosing the fact of earlier suit – Trial c ourt dismissed the suit on the ground that the past litigation has direct beari ng on the merits of the present controversy

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