https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179073 The Supreme Court treated the encounter as supported by contemporaneous record, including the first FIR, police encounter papers, inquest material, post-mortem evidence, forensic material and inquiry reports, and found no reliable basis to characterise it as a staged or fabricated killing. On sanction, it applied the settled test that protection under Section 197 is attracted where the alleged act is reasonably and integrally connected with official duty. Because the police action in tracing armed offenders, attempting arrest and responding to fire bore that nexus, prosecution without sanction could not be sustained and the complaint proceedings were liable to be quashed as an abuse of process. en-us Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:44:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179073 The Supreme Court treated the encounter as supported by contemporaneous record, including the first FIR, police encounter papers, inquest material, post-mortem evidence, forensic material and inquiry reports, and found no reliable basis to characterise it as a staged or fabricated killing. On sanction, it applied the settled test that protection under Section 197 is attracted where the alleged act is reasonably and integrally connected with official duty. Because the police action in tracing armed offenders, attempting arrest and responding to fire bore that nexus, prosecution without sanction could not be sustained and the complaint proceedings were liable to be quashed as an abuse of process. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179073