Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 330 · Decided 13 July 2021
Noorulla Khan v. Karnataka State Pollution Control Board & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 330 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 243
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 599/2021
- Decided
- 13 July 2021
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, AJAY RASTOGI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 197
Headnote
Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 - ss. 43, 44, 47 and 48 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 197 - Gram Panchayat and the appellant, who at the relevant time was chief officer of said Gram Panchayat, were accused of having committed offences - Civil Judge (Junior Division) and Judicial Magistrate First Class found appellant guilty of the offences - However, the Additional Session Judge held that the appellant was entitled to protection u/ s.197 of Cr.P.C. and in the absence of requisite sanction, his prosecution was
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