Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 227 · Decided 19 April 2000
Gaurishankarprasad v. State of Bihar and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 227 · [2000] 3 S.C.R. 159
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 379/2000
- Decided
- 19 April 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 197; CPC Section 80
Headnote
B Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 197-Sanction for prosecu- tion of Judges and Public Servants-No court shall take congnizance of any offence alleged to have been committed by public servant acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duty-Previous sanction of the Central c nexus with the official duties required to be discharged- Appellant, a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, for the purpose of removal of en- l' croachment from government land allegedly entered the chamber of the complainant, used filthy language and dragged him out-Held, the act alleged D has a
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