Supreme Court of India

Santhosh Karunakaran v. Ombudsman Cum Ethics Officer

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Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 29 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court has taken a very harsh view in rejecting the writ petition and the writ appeal preferred by the appellant on the purported ground of concealment of material facts concluding that the appellant had approached the writ court with unclean hands.

Judgment, page 5

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