original proprietress of the business, the writ petitioners should have been heard once by the competent authority who appears to be the Municipal Commissioner. However, we have ourselves gone into the material facts of the case. We find from the decree that was passed by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court referred to hereinabove, that the same provided that the writ petitioners and the private respondents shall jointly run the business of ‘Indian Silk Museum’. We also find that an affidavit was affirmed by the writ petitioners before the learned Judicial Magistrate at Alipore wherein it was stated that the writ petitioners, namely Ms. Rupa Saha and Sri Debasish Saha are the only legal heirs of Sumitra Saha who was the sole proprietress of the business in question. Let a copy of the said affidavit be kept with the records. This affidavit was submitted to the licensing authorities for obtaining a Certificate of Enlistment exclusively in the names of Rupa Saha and Debasish Saha. This document was suppressed by the writ petitioners before the Learned Single Judge as also before us. It has been brought to light by Learned Advocate for the private respondents. In our opinion, this was sharp practice amounting to fraud. The writ petitioners have not approached this Court with clean hands and do not deserve any relief from a Court of equity. In any event, we do not find that any prejudice has been
