https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157711 A complaint alleging that a police officer took money during a search and did not fully return it was treated as disclosing a cognizable offence of criminal breach of trust by a public servant, bringing paragraph 486 of the U.P. Police Regulations into play. The discussion then explains that the Police Act, 1861 and the regulations formed a statutory disciplinary code, and that paragraph 486 required a preliminary criminal-law procedure before departmental action against a subordinate police officer. On the majority view, that preliminary step was mandatory and non-compliance made the dismissal illegal. Wanchoo, J. dissented, treating the provision as directory and accepting substantial compliance. en-us Fri, 25 Nov 1960 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:27:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157711 A complaint alleging that a police officer took money during a search and did not fully return it was treated as disclosing a cognizable offence of criminal breach of trust by a public servant, bringing paragraph 486 of the U.P. Police Regulations into play. The discussion then explains that the Police Act, 1861 and the regulations formed a statutory disciplinary code, and that paragraph 486 required a preliminary criminal-law procedure before departmental action against a subordinate police officer. On the majority view, that preliminary step was mandatory and non-compliance made the dismissal illegal. Wanchoo, J. dissented, treating the provision as directory and accepting substantial compliance. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 25 Nov 1960 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157711