Supreme Court of India

State of Bihar Etc. Etc. v. P.P. Sharma, Ias and Anr.

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Reported as [1991] 2 S.C.R. 1

Bench Kuldip Singh and K. Ramaswamy JJ.

Decided 2 April 1991

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court committed manifest error of law to quash the charge-sheet on those grounds.

Judgment, page 47

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Article 226-High Court-When and under what circumstances would be justified to quash charge sheet before cognizance of offence taken by criminal court. Code of Criminal Procedure: Sections 173, 194, 197-Investi gation-Powers ofpolice-lntereference by Court when arises. The Bihar State Co-operative Marketing Union (BISCOMAUN) is the sole purchaser and distributor of fertilizers in the State. When the BI SCOMA UN was at the brink of liquidation due to mismanagement, c the State Government superseded its Board of Directors and appointed R.K. Singh, I. .S., as its

Authorities it was built on

1967 Syed Khawaja Moinuddin v. Government of India and 3 Ors. cited by 16

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