Maheswar Farmers Producer Organization v. The Union of India
Case brief
What is this about?
Unclean hands doctrine; suppression of material facts; suppressio veri suggestio falsi; deliberate non-disclosure of pending FIR in writ affidavit; dismissal of writ petition; no indulgence to petitioner; F.I.R.No.90/2024 dated 10.07.2024, Chilakaluripet Rural Police Station; illegal/unauthorized highway connection; Static Weigh Bridge; earth dumped on highway shoulders; National Highway; NHAI; Union of India; Mandal Parishad Development Officer; Pasumarru Gram Panchayat; Palnadu district; Panchayat Secretary written instructions dated 18.03.2025; no order as to costs; interlocutory applications closed; Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amaravati; counsel: Ravi Teja Gude for petitioner; GP for Panchayat Raj & RD, GP for Revenue, Chaudhary and Chaudhary, and Mattegunta Sudhir (standing counsel for ZPPs/MPPs/Gram Panchayats) with S. Hruthik for respondents.
What did the court decide?
The non-disclosure of the pendency of F.I.R.No.90/2024 dated 10.07.2024, despite express query by the Court, was a deliberate suppression of material fact by the writ petitioner — 'Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi'; the suppression of material fact suggests falsehood.