Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1128 · Decided 11 September 2009
State Through Central Bureau of Investigation v. Parmeshwaran Subramani and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1128 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 385
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1758/2009
- Decided
- 11 September 2009
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, B. SUDERSHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Prevention of Corruption Act Section 12
Headnote
,.... Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988: s.12 - Previous sanction of government as required under s. 19 is not c necessary for taking cognizance of offence punishable under s. 12 of the Act. Interpretation of Statutes: Courts cannot add words to or read words into it which are not there-Where there D is no ambiguity and intention of legislature is clearly conveyed, there is no scope for the Court to undertake any exercise to read something into the provision which the legislature in its wisdom consciously omitted - Such exercise if
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