The Bench also took a dim view of the fact that the informant had filed the plea in the capacity of an individual, when in fact, he was running an accreditation agency as a proprietor. On this aspect, it was held,
“Law is settled on the point that if one does not come before the Court or Tribunal with clean hands his claim deserves to be rejected, where as in the present case it is not a simple case that the Appellant has not approached the Court with clean hands but it is one step ahead wherein he has misled both the CCI as well as this Tribunal.”
Therefore, apart from the non-maintainability of the appeal, the Tribunal found no need to examine it on merits, since the appellant misled both the CCI as well as the NCLAT.
Source: Barandbench
