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PETITIONER: OM PRAKASH GUPTA
Vs.
RESPONDENT: STATE OF U. P.(with connected appeals)
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 11/01/1957
BENCH: MENON, P. GOVINDA BENCH: MENON, P. GOVINDA DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA DAS, S.K.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 458 1957 SCR 423
ACT: Implied repeal-Whether s. 409 of the Indian Penal Code is impliedly repealed by s. 5(I)(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 (11 Of 1947)-Whether the application of s. 4o9 of the Indian Penal Code to a public servant infringes Art. 14 of the Constitution Sanction-Whether sanction under s. 6 of the Prevention of Corruption Act necessary for prosecution under s. 409 of the Indian Penal Code.
HEADNOTE: The offences under s. 409 Of the Indian Penal Code and s. 5(1)(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 are distinct and separate, and there is no question Of s. 5(1)(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 repealing s. 409 of the Indian Penal Code. Amarendra Nath Roy v. The State, A. 1. R. [1955] Cal. 236, approved. The legislature would not have intended in the normal course of things, that a temporary statute like the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, should supersede an enactment of antiquity like the Indian Penal Code. In the view that the two offences under S. 409 Of the Indian Penal Code and s. 5(I)(c) of the Prevention of Corru...