SupremeToday Landscape Ad
Back
Next
Judicial Analysis Court Copy Headnote Facts Arguments Court observation
Listen Audio Icon Pause Audio Icon
judgment-img

2023 Supreme(Cal) 972

AJOY KUMAR MUKHERJEE
Kanakendra Das – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Sudipto Moitra, Mr. Samiran Mondal, Mr. Abhinaba Dan, Mr. Nitish Samanta, Mr. Dwaipayan Biswas.
For the Opposite Parties : Mr. Saswata Gopal Mukherjee, Mr. Madhusudan Sur, Mr. Dipankar Pramanick, Mr. Sukanta Chakraborty, Mr. Anindya Halder, Mr. S.T. Meena.

Judgement Key Points

What is the proper scope and admissibility of a Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. application filed without an accompanying affidavit in a court-monitored investigation?

What are the prerequisites and necessity of prior sanction under Section 197 Cr.P.C. and Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act for prosecuting public officers, and can such sanction be considered during trial or framing of charge?

What is the appropriateness of alternative remedies under the West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 (Section 431) as against lodging an FIR/complaint for alleged malfeasance by municipal authorities?


JUDGMENT :

1. Being aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the order dated 24.10.2016 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Cooch Behar and the initiation of the criminal proceeding being Kotwali Police Station Case No. 1303 of 2016 dated 04.12.2016 under sections 409/420/471/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the charge sheet and subsequent orders passed thereto, present application under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter called as Cr.P.C.) has been preferred, separately by 3 accused persons/petitioners herein, seeking quashing of said proceeding being CRR no, 522 of 2018, CRR 1683 of 2018 and CRR 1584 of 2018. Since issues involved in the all the three applications are almost same, all the aforesaid three applications are disposed of by this common order.

2. On 24.10.2016 one Shri Samrat Kundu filed a complaint under section 156 (3) of the Cr.P.C., against the petitioners and others alleging that the Government of West Bengal Department of Municipal Affair through their G.O. No. 185 (sanction)/ MA/P/C-10/IG-2/2015 dated 17.09.2013 sanctioned huge amount to the tune of Rs. 1,77,75, 000/-for different

                  Click Here to Read the rest of this document
                  1
                  2
                  3
                  4
                  5
                  6
                  7
                  8
                  9
                  10
                  11
                  SupremeToday Portrait Ad
                  supreme today icon
                  logo-black

                  An indispensable Tool for Legal Professionals, Endorsed by Various High Court and Judicial Officers

                  Please visit our Training & Support
                  Center or Contact Us for assistance

                  qr

                  Scan Me!

                  India’s Legal research and Law Firm App, Download now!

                  For Daily Legal Updates, Join us on :

                  whatsapp-icon telegram-icon
                  whatsapp-icon Back to top