Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. Prafulla Kumar Samal & Anr.

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Bench S. Murtaza Fazal Ali and D.A. Desai JJ.

Decided 6 November 1978

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21 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

For the reasons given above, the judgment of the High Court is affirmed and the appeal is dismissed.

Judgment, p. 240

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, S. 227—Order of discharge by a Special Judge, scope and ambit. The second respondent, a Land Acquisition Officer, allegedly, by abusing his official position, concealed the fact that the land which was the subject matter of acquisition was really Khasmahal land belonging to the Government and having made it appear that the first respondent was the undisputed owner of the same, aided and abetted him in getting a huge sum of money as compensation.…

Authorities it was built on

1968 Almohan Das and Ors. v. State of West Bengal cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

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2024 Ram Prakash Chadha v. The State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2022 Kanchan Kumar v. The State of Bihar relied on
2022 Ghulam Hassan Beigh v. Mohammad Maqbool Magrey & Ors. relied on
2021 Sanjay Kumar Rai v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2019 Asim Shariff v. National Investigation Agency relied on
2019 Vikram Johar v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2013 L. Krishna Reddy v. State by Station House Officer & Ors. relied on
2012 Sheoraj Singh Ahlawat & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2026 Dr. Anand Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2025 Tuhin Kumar Biswas @ Bumba v. The State of West Bengal referred to
2025 State Represented by Inspector of Police, Cbi, Acb, Visakhapatnam v. Eluri Srinivasa Chakravarthi and Others referred to
2022 Pushpendra Kumar Sinha v. State of Jharkhand referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 State of Gujarat v. Mansukhbhai Kanjibhai Shah referred to
2019 Tarun Jit Tejpal v. The State of Goa & Anr. referred to
2019 Dipakbhai Jagdishchandra Patel v. State of Gujarat and Another referred to
2018 Public Interest Foundation & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr. referred to
2014 Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors. referred to
2013 Sherish Hardenia & Ors. v. State of M.P. & Anr. referred to
2019 State of West Bengal v. Indrajit Kundu & Ors. not applicable

Of those, 9 relied on · 11 referred to · 1 not applicable

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