Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 682 · Decided 8 August 2023
A. Sreenivasa Reddy v. Rakesh Sharma and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 682 · [2023] 12 S.C.R. 932
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2339/2023
- Decided
- 8 August 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 197, 216; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 19
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the appellant, an Assistant General Manager of a Nationalised Bank is removable from his offi ce save by or with the sanction of the Government so as to make s.197, CrPC applicable; and if he can be proceeded against for off ences punishable the sanction u/s.19, PC Act, 1988 to prosecute him for the off ences thereunder was declined. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.197 - When not attracted: Held: Although a person working in a Nationalised Bank is a public servant, yet the provisions of s.197 would not be
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