Ameen v. Salahudeen & Others – sllr 1998 volume 3 page 185

In Ameen v. Salahudeen & Others, the court addressed whether a third party, not originally part of a consent decree, could intervene to set aside or attack such a decree after its entry. The proceedings arose when an outsider, alleging fraudulent non-disclosure of the consent decree in a related case, sought intervention under section 18 of the Civil Procedure Code following the plaintiff’s default on the decree’s obligations and ensuing enforcement actions. The court held that intervention by third parties after the entry of a consent decree is impermissible except in exceptional circumstances, such as lack of capacity, jurisdictional defects, or overriding statutory grounds. The rights and obligations of the parties as crystallized by the consent decree were reaffirmed as final, and the