https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466359 Writ relief under Article 226 may be refused where a petitioner pursues parallel proceedings on the same subject matter, since such conduct amounts to forum hunting and abuse of process. The Court also treated suppression of a pending civil appeal as a material non-disclosure going to the root of discretionary relief, and applied the clean hands principle to deny equitable intervention. Because the petitioner had already invoked a civil remedy and withheld a material fact from the writ court, the petition was held not maintainable and costs were considered warranted. en-us Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:41:34 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466359 Writ relief under Article 226 may be refused where a petitioner pursues parallel proceedings on the same subject matter, since such conduct amounts to forum hunting and abuse of process. The Court also treated suppression of a pending civil appeal as a material non-disclosure going to the root of discretionary relief, and applied the clean hands principle to deny equitable intervention. Because the petitioner had already invoked a civil remedy and withheld a material fact from the writ court, the petition was held not maintainable and costs were considered warranted. Case-Laws Indian Laws Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466359