Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 325 · Decided 29 November 1968
Prabhakar V. Sinari v. Shanker Anant Verlekar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 325 · [1969] 2 S.C.R. 1013
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 152/1967
- Decided
- 29 November 1968
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, A.N. GROVER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 435, 197, 200
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, •· 197-Sanction for prosecution of public servant-Police Officer interfering in dispute over land and ask­ ing one party to take possession-Whether act• in discharge of official duty. A private complaint was !!led again•! the appellant who wa. com­ plainant there was a dispute between him and certain hawkers who wanted to trespass on his land and at his instance the police wa. in­ formed. The appellant came to the spot, threatened and assaulted him, . and suggested to the hawkers to enter upon the land, whereupon the hawkers
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