Mala Fide - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition mala-fide

Definition :

Mala fide, in bad faith.

Mala fide, is not meaningless jargon. It has proper connotation. Mala fides depends upon its own facts and circumstances, Prabodh Sagar v. Punjab State Electricity Board, (2005) 5 SCC 630.

Means an action taken in undue haste may amount to be mala fide, Inderpreet Singh Kahlon v. State of Punjab, AIR 2006 (SC) 2571: (2006) 5 JT 352: (2006) 5 SCALE 273: 2006 (4) Supreme 8: (2006) 6 SCJ 107: (2006) 5 SCJD 59: (2006) 7 SRJ 432.

The expression 'malafide' has a definite significance in the legal phraseology and the same cannot possibly emanate out of fanciful imagination or even apprehensions but there must be existing definite evidence of bias and actions which cannot be attributed to be otherwise bona fide - actions not otherwise bona fide, however, by themselves would not amount to be mala fide unless the same is in accompaniment with some other factors which would depict a bad motive or intent on the part of the doer of the act, State of Punjab v. V.K. Khanna, AIR 2001 SC 343.