Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 24 · Decided 15 January 1998
Sonelal Tiwari v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 24 · [1998] 1 S.C.R. 197
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 664/1989
- Decided
- 15 January 1998
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR, K.T. THOMAS (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 394(2); Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
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