U.P. State Sugar Corporation vs M/S. Sumac International Ltd on 4 December, 1996
10. There are, however, two exceptions to this Rule. The
first is when there is a clear fraud of which the Bank has
notice and a fraud of the beneficiary from which it seeks
to benefit. The fraud must be of an egregious nature as to
vitiate the entire underlying transaction. The second
exception to the general rule of non- intervention is when
there are 'special equities' in favour of injunction, such
as when 'irretrievable injury' or 'irretrievable injustice'
would occur if such an injunction were not granted. The
general rule and its exceptions has been reiterated in so
many judgments of this Court, that in U.P. State Sugar
Corporation v. Sumac International Ltd.