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Search Results for Tag : Official Duty

News

Bombay HC: Causing Bomb Blast Not an Official Duty(02.01.2023)

Bombay High Court while rejecting an appeal filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, seeking discharge in the case of 2008 Malegaon blast .....

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Bom. HC: Custodial Torture is Not Official Duty(28.03.2023)

Bombay High Court while observing that custodial torture is not official duty and no sanction is required to prosecute police officers in cases of dea.....

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SC: Sanction for Prosecution U/S 197 CrPC Required for Acts Done in Excess of Official Duty(19.06.2023)

Supreme Court has held that sanction for prosecution under Section 197 CrPC is required not only for acts done in discharge of official duty but also .....

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Orissa HC: If Impugned Act Has Nexus With Duty Sanction Must be Obtained to Prosecute Public Servant(04.11.2022)

Orissa High Court has held that sanction must be obtained under Section 197 of Criminal Procedure Code if impugned act of public servant has a reasona.....

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Judgments

Sanction under Section 197 of CrPC is required to prosecute public servants, if alleged act committed is directly concerned with official duty(23.07.2021)

The Appellant, is the complainant in FIR registered under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and Sections 3(1)(.....

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Officer travelling for official meeting is in discharge of official duty(26.04.2016)

The Supreme Court allowed an appeal by of an official in-charge of a government hospital in District Raigad against prosecution without grant of sanct.....

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