Legal Street registered trademark

Supreme Court of India

K. Veeraswami v. Union of India and Others

Neutral citation
Bench B.C. Ray, K. Jagannatha Shetty, Lalit Mohan Sharma, M.N. Venkatachaliah and J.S. Verma JJ.
Decided 25 July 1991

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

59 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the majority judgments, the appeal is dismissed.

Judgment, ORDER (p. 306)

From the headnote

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947: Ss. 2, 5(1)(e), 5(2), 6(1)(c)-Public servant-Possession of pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to known sources of income-Prosecution after superannuation-Previous sanction-Whether necessary. Judge of High Court/Supreme Court-Whether 'public servant', liable to prosecution under the Act-Sanctioning authority-Who is. Sanctioning authority-Whether vertically superior in the hierarchy in which office of the public servant exists.…

Authorities it was built on

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 4 relied on · 3 followed · 6 referred to · 46 mentioned

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.