Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 44 · Decided 22 April 1959
The State of Ajmer (Now Rajasthan) v. Shivji Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 44 · [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 739
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3/1957
- Decided
- 22 April 1959
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.N. WANCHOO (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 5(2), 21, 161; Constitution; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(1)(d), 4(1), 5(2)
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 739 may be reprehensible but that will not affect the '959 interpretation to be put on s. 20(2)(b) of the Act. A dh . M . 1 Section 12 lays down the duties of the Conciliation Kur7a ;~s ;:,:ice officer. He is required to bring about settlement & Another between the that the report should be Kapur 1. made and the proceedings closed within a fortnight and if proceedings are not closed but are carried on, as they were in the present case, or if the Conciliation Officer does not make his report within 14 days he may be guilty of a breach of duty but in
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