Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 112 · Decided 3 December 1957
S.A.VENKATARAMAN v. The State
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 112 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 1040
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 130/1956
- Decided
- 3 December 1957
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 161, 165; CrPC Section 561A; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2), 6
Headnote
3. 1040 SUPREME COURT REPORTS S.A.VENKATARAMAN v. THE STATE (and connected appeal) [1958] (B. P. SINHA, JAFER IMAM and J. L. KAPUR JJ.) Criminal trial-Public servant accused of criminal mis­ conduct-Dismissal from service before taking of cogni­ zance by Court-Sanction to prosecute, if he was charged with having committed the offence of criminal misconduct under s. 5 (2), Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 and was convicted. No sanction under s. 6 of the Act was produced before the trial Court. It was contended that the Court could not take cognizance of the offence without
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