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Shalimar Tar Products Ltd vs H.C. Sharma & Ors on 12 November, 1987

5. Exception, to this universal rule or its non- availability, is not due to absence of any provision in the Act excluding its operation but welfare of society or social and general well-being. Protection was, consequently, sought not on the rationale adopted by the High Court that in absence of notice under Section 8 of the Act estoppel could not arise but under cover of public policy. Reliance was placed on Shalimar Tar Products v. H.C. Sharma, AIR 1988 SC 145, a decision on waiver, and Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Reed, 14 Appeal Cases 587, which laid down that there could be no estoppel against statute. Equi- ty, usually, follows law. Therefore, that which is statutorily illegal and void cannot be enforced by resorting to the rule of estoppel. Such extension of rule may be against public policy. What then is the nature of right conferred by Section 9 of the Act?
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