Supreme Court of India

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

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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 petition – Preliminary objection raised by the respondent challenging the maintainability of the review petition on the ground that the three documents appended to the review petition and relied upon by the review petitioners were unauthorisedly removed from the office of the Ministry of Defence and and for the said reason, the review petition was not maintainable as said act violated the provisions of ss.3 and 5 of Official Secrets Act – The said three documents were admittedly published in two newspapers on different dates – Held: No law…

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