{"id":30993,"date":"2011-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kishorbhai-vs-state-on-26-august-2011"},"modified":"2017-04-25T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T08:48:08","slug":"kishorbhai-vs-state-on-26-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kishorbhai-vs-state-on-26-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Kishorbhai vs State on 26 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kishorbhai vs State on 26 August, 2011<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: M.R. Shah,<\/div>\n<pre>  \n Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n    \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nSCR.A\/1677\/2011\t 2\/ 2\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCRIMINAL APPLICATION No. 1677 of 2011\n \n\n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nKISHORBHAI\nDWARKADAS SODHA &amp; 1 - Applicant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nSTATE\nOF GUJARAT - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nMB PARIKH for\nApplicant(s) : 1 - 2. \nMR LB DABHI, ADDL.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for\nRespondent(s) :\n1, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE M.R. SHAH\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 26\/08\/2011 \n\n \n\n \n \nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>Present<br \/>\n\tpetition under Article 227 of the Constitution<br \/>\n\tof India has been preferred by the petitioners  to quash and<br \/>\n\tset aside the impugned Judgement and Order dtd.11\/11\/2009  passed by<br \/>\n\tthe learned Additional Sessions Judge, Amreli in Criminal Revision<br \/>\n\tApplication No.3 of 2009 as well as order passed by the learned<br \/>\n\tJudicial Magistrate (First Class), Savarkundla below application<br \/>\n\tEx.51 in Criminal Case No.648 of 2000 dtd.28\/11\/2008 in dismissing<br \/>\n\tthe application submitted by the petitioners for discharge.\n<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\n\tappears that at the relevant time, the petitioners submitted an<br \/>\n\tapplication for discharge on the ground that at the time when the<br \/>\n\talleged offence was committed, they were public officers and<br \/>\n\ttherefore, before prosecuting them, sanction was required, which was<br \/>\n\tnot obtained. However, it appears that during the penedency of the<br \/>\n\tproceedings, sanction against the petitioners  have already been<br \/>\n\tobtained, which is not disputed by the petitioners. Under the<br \/>\n\tcircumstances, apart from the fact that there is a delay of more<br \/>\n\tthan 2 years in preferring the present petition, even considering<br \/>\n\tthe decision of the Hon&#8217;ble<br \/>\n\tSupreme Court  in the case of Raghunath Anant Govilkar<br \/>\n\tVersus State of Maharashtra  and others, reported in AIR<br \/>\n\t2008 S.C. (Supplementary) 1486, both the courts below<br \/>\n\thave rightly rejected the application submitted by the petitioners<br \/>\n\tfor discharge. No case is made out to  interfere with the impugned<br \/>\n\tjudgement and orders passed by both the courts below in exercise of<br \/>\n\tpowers under Article 227 of the Constitution<br \/>\n\tof India.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tIn<br \/>\n\tview of the above, there is no substance in the present petition,<br \/>\n\twhich deserves to be dismissed and is accordingly dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[M.R.\n<\/p>\n<p>SHAH, J.]<\/p>\n<p>rafik<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Kishorbhai vs State on 26 August, 2011 Author: M.R. Shah, Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCR.A\/1677\/2011 2\/ 2 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION No. 1677 of 2011 ========================================================= KISHORBHAI DWARKADAS SODHA &amp; 1 &#8211; Applicant(s) Versus STATE OF GUJARAT &#8211; Respondent(s) ========================================================= Appearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kishorbhai vs State on 26 August, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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