Supreme Court of India

State of Orissa through Kumar Raghvendra Singh and Ors. v. Ganesh Chandra Jew

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Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijlt Pasayat JJ.

Decided 24 March 2004

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 197 3-Section 197-Sanclion- Requirement of-Acting or purporting to act in discharge of official duty- Meaning of-Cognizance without sanction-Legality of-Officers of forest department arresting R for illegally possessing ivory-Complaint flied by R alleging assault and maltreatment during arrest and thereafter-Held, act done in discharge of official duty-Cognizance without sanction is prohibited Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973--Section 482-Quashing o}--Officers of forest department arresting R for il/egal~v possessing ivory-Complaint flied by R alleging assault a~d…

Authorities it was built on

1998 Kalicharan Mahapatra v. State of Orissa cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2024 Gurmeet Kaur v. Devender Gupta & Another relied on
2024 Shadakshari v. State of Karnataka & Anr. relied on
2020 D. Devaraja v. Owais Sabeer Hussain relied on
2016 Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (eevfam) & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. relied on
2015 D. T. Virupakshappa v. C. Subash relied on
2012 Om Prakash & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand through the Secretary, Department of Home, Ranchl-i & Anr. relied on
2012 General Officer Commanding v. Cbi and Anr relied on
2023 A. Srinivasulu v. The State Rep. by the Inspector of Police referred to
2019 Satyan v. Deputy Commissioner & Ors. referred to

Of those, 7 relied on · 2 referred to

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