Supreme Court of India
Devinder Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab through Cbi
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Punjab Disturbed Areas Act, 1983 (as amended in 1989) - s.6 - Sanction before prosecution - Prosecution of police officials for cases alleging deaths caused in fake encounters and torture or death in police custody - After obtaining sanction from State Government and without obtaining sanction from Central Government - Need for sanction from Central Gm•ernmenl - Held: Jn case the version of prosecution is found to be correct, /here is no requireme/11 for sanction, as a public servant is not entitled to indulge in criminal activities - Howeve1; it would be open to the accused person to adduce
Authorities it was built on
- 1954 Shreekantiah Rama Yya Munipalli v. The State of Bombay
- 1997 Mansukhlal Vithaldas Chauhan v. State of Gujarat
- 1955 Matajog Dobey v. H. C. Bhari
- 2006 Sankaran Moitra v. Sadhna Das and Anr.
- 2005 K. Kalimuthu v. State by D.S.P.
- 2012 General Officer Commanding v. Cbi and Anr
- 2011 Satyavir Singh Rathi v. State Thr. C.b.i
- 2000 Abdul Wahab Ansari v. State of Bihar and Anr.
- 2012 Om Prakash & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand through the Secretary, Department of Home, Ranchl-i & Anr.
- 1993 State of Maharashtra v. Dr. Budhikota Subharao
- 2015 D. T. Virupakshappa v. C. Subash
- 2007 Harpal Singh v. State of Punjab
- 2000 P.P. Unikrishnan and Anr. v. Puttiyottil Alikutty and Anr.
- 1997 Suresh Kumar Bhikamchand Jain v. Pandey Ajay Bhushan and Ors.
- 2005 State of Karnataka through Cbi v. C. Nagarajaswamy
- 2015 Dr. (smt.) Manorama Tiwari and Others v. Surendra Nath Rai
- 1995 Mrs. Paramjit Kaur v. State of Punjab and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 S. K. Miglani v. State Nct of Delhi
- 2023 A. Srinivasulu v. The State Rep. by the Inspector of Police
- 2023 Amod Kumar Kanth v. Association of Victim of Uphaar Tragedy and Anr.
- 2020 D. Devaraja v. Owais Sabeer Hussain
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 2 referred to
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