Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 833 · Decided 7 December 2021
C. Sivasankaran v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 833 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 589
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 302/2019
- Decided
- 7 December 2021
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 226
Headnote
Diplomats/Ambassadors - Diplomatic immunity - Ambassador- at-large - Relief(s) claimed in writ petition before High Court on the assertion that the petitioner being an Ambassador-at-large of Seychelles, enjoys diplomatic immunity and, therefore, cannot be proceeded with before by way of criminal action - Argument rejected by High Court - Propriety - Held: Proper - For, the petitioner does not come within the sweep of definition of "diplomatic agent" or for that matter any other category of officials referred to in Article 1 of the
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