Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 234 · Decided 31 March 2014
State of Bihar & ORS. v. Rajmangal Ram
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 234 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 602
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 708/2014
- Decided
- 31 March 2014
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 197, 465; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 19(1), 19(3)
Headnote
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 1973: c s. 465 rlw s. 197 Cr.P.C. ands. 19 (3) rlw s.19 (1) of PC Act - Interference with criminal prosecution on the ground of defects/omissions/errors in the order granting sanction for prosecution - Held: Both s. 465, Cr.P.C. ands. 19 (3) of PC Act make it clear that 0 grant of sanction will not affect any finding, sentence or order passed by a competent court unless in the opinion of the court, a failure of justice has been occasioned - In the instant case, even assuming that Law Department was not competent to accord sanction, it was still necessary for High
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