https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192455 Sanction for prosecution must be accorded by the authority competent under the applicable allocation of business. The prosecution relied on sanction granted by the Ministry of Industrial Development and Company Affairs under Section 6(1)(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, but the challenge was that only the Home Department of the Government of India could validly grant sanction. As the Home Ministry had not sanctioned the prosecution, the absence of competent sanction constituted a jurisdictional defect and the prosecution could not stand. en-us Mon, 07 Sep 1970 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:05:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192455 Sanction for prosecution must be accorded by the authority competent under the applicable allocation of business. The prosecution relied on sanction granted by the Ministry of Industrial Development and Company Affairs under Section 6(1)(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, but the challenge was that only the Home Department of the Government of India could validly grant sanction. As the Home Ministry had not sanctioned the prosecution, the absence of competent sanction constituted a jurisdictional defect and the prosecution could not stand. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 07 Sep 1970 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192455