Supreme Court of India

Indra Devi v. State of Rajasthan & Anr.

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Reported as [2021] 8 S.C.R. 23
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 23 July 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, the appeals are dismissed leaving the parties to bear their own costs.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.197 – Sanction for prosecution – Case of complainant was that in a sale tr ansaction, the purchaser fabricated the agreement with the intention t o defraud her – This was allegedly done in collusion with the then executive officer of the municipality, junior engineer and the concerned clerk by enlarging the dimensions of the plot whch was sold to him with the intention to grab the land and house occup ied by the complainant and her husband – Respondent no.2 was the concerned clerk during the relevant period though he was neit her named in the FIR nor in the

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