Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 765 · Decided 27 November 1997
Suresh Kumar Bhikamchand Jain v. Pandey Ajay Bhushan and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 765 · [1997] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 524
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1114/1997
- Decided
- 27 November 1997
- Bench
- G.N. RAY, G.B. PATTANAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 197
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Section 197-Criminal complaint against Government servants-Sanction for prosecution from government- C Want of-Plea of bar against cognizance-Raising of-Held, question of sanction can be considered at any stage of the proceedings-The question of sanction should not against the merits of the prosecution case by way of defence evidence is not required to be followed for bringing materials in support of plea of bar for want of sanction. D Practice and Procedure-Jurisdictional error-Plea against-Held, ca11 be raised at any stage-No bar for producing the
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