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Fraud on the Statute, the expression 'fraud on the statute' is merely a figurative description of a colourable transaction to evade the provisions of a statute and does not, for purpose of choice of the remedy, distinguish itself from the consequences of fraud as vitiating the permission under s. 21, Pankaj Bhargava v. Mohinder Nath, (1991) 1 SCC 556 (569). (Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, s. 21)