Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 65 · Decided 2 March 1971
Makeshwar Nath Srivastava v. State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 65 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 863
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 23/1967
- Decided
- 2 March 1971
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, A.N. GROVER, A.N. RAY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 379, 414
Headnote
c Police Act 5 of 1861-Rules under s. 46 of Act embodied in Bihar .nd Orissa Police Manual 1930-0rder by Inspector-General under ,s, 7 of Act-Appellate powers of Government under r. 851(b)-Revfsio11<1l Powers under s. 853-Power of Suverintendence under s. 3-Scop~ oj. . At the releva.nt time the State of B1har as officiating Inspector of police: After a departmental inquiry against him the report of the enquiry officer was submitted to the Inspector General of Police with the recommendation that the appellant should be given exemplary punishment. Under s. 7 of the Police Act, 1861 the
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