https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278159 Writ jurisdiction under Articles 226 and 227 was held maintainable where the dispute could be resolved from documents, affidavits, sanction files and earlier orders without oral evidence. The sanction orders were then found invalid because the relevant investigation material was not placed before the sanctioning authority and the orders did not show due application of mind. Treating valid sanction as a jurisdictional precondition for cognizance under the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Court held the defect was not a mere irregularity. The cognizance and charge proceedings were declared void ab initio and the criminal proceedings were quashed. en-us Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:20:39 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278159 Writ jurisdiction under Articles 226 and 227 was held maintainable where the dispute could be resolved from documents, affidavits, sanction files and earlier orders without oral evidence. The sanction orders were then found invalid because the relevant investigation material was not placed before the sanctioning authority and the orders did not show due application of mind. Treating valid sanction as a jurisdictional precondition for cognizance under the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Court held the defect was not a mere irregularity. The cognizance and charge proceedings were declared void ab initio and the criminal proceedings were quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278159