Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 247 · Decided 24 August 1961
Dhaneshwar Narain Saxena v. The Delhi Administration
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 247 · [1962] 3 S.C.R. 259
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 6/1959
- Decided
- 24 August 1961
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(1)(d), 5(I)
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 259 Act must follow. Such a law is not capable of being called in question on the ground that it abridges any fundamental right conferred by Arts.14 19 and 31, if it has been assented to by the Preside~t. The notification was thus valid, if the law was valid. In the result, the N. RAJAGOPALAAYYANGAR andJ.R. MuDHOLKAR, JJ.) Prevention of Corruption-Public servant-Misconduct, not in the discharge of one's duty-Corrupting other public servant-­ Criminal Misconduct-Ingredients of offence-Prevention of Cor1'uption Act, 1947 (2 of 1947), ss. 5 (1) (d), ti (1) (d). The
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