Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 277 · Decided 20 December 1986
MOHD. Mumtaz v. Nandini Satpathy and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 277 · [1987] 1 S.C.R. 680
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 48/1983
- Decided
- 20 December 1986
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. KHALID, G.L. OZA, S. NATARAJAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 321, 239; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
I Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 321-Withdrawal from prosecution-Public Prosecutor-Right of-Conditions under which ·withdrawal is permissible-Competency of Court to permit withdrawal. Prosecution was launched against Respondent No. l under s.5(l)(d) read with s.5(2) of the Prevention for having assets disproportionate to her known sources of income. The Special Public Prosecutor filed application for withdrawal of the prosecution against Respondent No. I. The Additional Special Judge allowed the application. The High Court dismissed the revision petition and confirmed the
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