Supreme Court of India

Rakesh Kumar Mishra v. The State of Bihar and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] 1 S.C.R. 124

Bench Arijit Pasayat and G.P. Mathur JJ.

Decided 3 January 2006

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sectiun 197: Prosecution of public servant-Need for prior sanction---Scope and ambit of protection under S.197 Cr PC-Held: If it is prim a facie found that the act or omission for which the public servant was charged had reasonable connection with discharxe of his official duty, then it must be held to be official to which applicubi/ity of S.197 cannot be disputed-But no universal rule to determine whether there is u reasonable connection between the act done and the official duty. Protection under S.197 'rPC - Is available even in cases where a retired public

Authorities it was built on

1998 Kalicharan Mahapatra v. State of Orissa cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2012 General Officer Commanding v. Cbi and Anr relied on
2023 A. Srinivasulu v. The State Rep. by the Inspector of Police referred to
2013 Urmila Devi v. Yudhvir Singh referred to
2012 Om Kr. Dhankar v. State of Haryana & Anr. not applicable

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 1 not applicable

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