Supreme Court of India
Common Cause & Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
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We are of the opinion that the file notes in this case cannot be described as an 'official secret' for the purposes of prosecuting Mr.
Judgment, page 18
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c Investigation - Fair investigation - Coal-Block allocation case - Interlocutory application, seeking direction to the Director CBI (Ranjit Sinha) not to interfere with investigations in coal-block a/location case and direction to appoint SIT to investigate the abuse of authority committed by the CBI Director in order to scuttle inquiries, investigations and prosecutions carried out by CBI, in coal block allocation cases and other important cases - Held: On account of superannuation of the Director, the plea of his refusal from the investigation has become infructuous - Investigations must
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Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Shailesh Kumar v. State of U.P. (now State of Uttarakhand)
- 2018 Romila Thapar and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2023 Maghavendra Pratap Singh @ Pankaj Singh v. State of Chhattisgarh
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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