Supreme Court of India

Yashwant Sinha & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation through its Director & Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 5 S.C.R. 638
Bench Ranjan Gogoi, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K. M. Joseph JJ.
Decided 10 April 2019

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Official Secrets Act, 1923: ss.3 and 5 – Review pet ition – Preliminary objection raised by the respondent chal lenging the maintainability of the review petition on the ground th at the three documents appended to the review petition and relied upon by the review petitioners were unauthorisedly removed from th e office of the Ministry of Defence and and for the said reason , the review petition was not maintainable as said act violated the prov isions of ss.3 and 5 of Official Secrets Act – The said three docume nts were admittedly published in two newspapers on different dates – Held: No

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