Supreme Court of India

Station House Officer, Cbi/acb/bangalore v. B.A. Srinivasan and Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 14 S.C.R. 513
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit, Indu Malhotra and Krishna Murari JJ.
Decided 5 December 2019

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Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947: s.19 – Requireme nt of sanction – Held: Sanction to prosecute public servant is not re quired if the public servant has already retired on the date of cognizance of the court – Thus, protection under s.19 is not available to p ublic servant after he demitted his office or retired from se rvice – Public servant. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.197 – Protection under s.197 is available to the public servants when an offence is said t o have been committed ‘while acting or purporting to act in discharge of their official duty’, but where the acts are per

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