Supreme Court of India

State of H.P. v. M.P. Gupta

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 541

Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arljit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 9 December 2003

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Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 197-Penal Code, 1860- Sections 120- , 420, 511, 467, 4.58 and 471-Criminal proceedings initiated against Public Servant for commission of offences-Necessity of requisite sanction of an appropriate authority-Held, Section 197 Cr. PC does not extend its protective cover to every act or omission done by a public servant in service but restricts its scope of operation to only those acts or omissions which are done by a public servant in discharge of official duty-Official duty implies that the act or omission must have been done by the public servant in the

Authorities it was built on

1954 Shreekantiah Rama Yya Munipalli v. The State of Bombay cited by 27
1998 Kalicharan Mahapatra v. State of Orissa cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2018 Om Prakash Agarwal Since Deceased Thr. Lrs. & Ors. v. Vishan Dayal Rajpoot & Anr. relied on
2016 Punjab State Warehousing Corp. v. Bhushan Chander & Anr. relied on
2016 Amal Kumar J Ha v. State of Chhatisgarh & Anr. relied on
2012 General Officer Commanding v. Cbi and Anr relied on
2012 Dr. Subramanian Swamy v. Dr. Manmohan Singh and Another referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 1 referred to

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