V. KAMESWAR RAO, ANOOP KUMAR MENDIRATTA
Dinesh Kumar Singh – Appellant
Versus
Municipal Corporation of Delhi – Respondent
JUDGMENT
V. Kameswar Rao (Oral)
CM APPL. 16583/2023
1. Exemption allowed, subject to all just exceptions.
2. Application stands disposed of.
W.P.(C) 4299/2023 & CM APPL. 16584/2023
3. The challenge in this writ petition is to an order dated December 05, 2022, passed by Central Administrative Tribunal (`Tribunal', in short) in O.A. 129/2022, where the Tribunal has in paragraphs 3 & 4 stated as under:
"3. The records of this case are called for. A letter dated 05.03.2021 was shown to us where the applicant took benefit of a forged letter No. DH685/COM/SDMC/2021 dated 5.03.2021.
4. In view of this, we are of the view that the applicant has not come before this Tribunal with clean hands. Hence, the present O.A. is dismissed in terms of the decision of Hon'ble Apex Court in S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853, wherein it is held that where a person, who has not come with clean hands, the Tribunals or Courts shall not give any heed to such cases."
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioners is neither in receipt or aware of the contents of letter dated 05.03.2021, on which reliance has been placed by the Tribunal to state that the same has be
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