https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296402 A quasi-judicial order passed by a Tahsildar under Section 12 of the Kerala Land Conservancy Act, 1957 does not attract prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 merely because it is alleged to be wrong or favourable to a private party; criminal misconduct requires material showing abuse of position, dishonest intent, and extraneous consideration, which was absent here. The FIR also failed to disclose forgery, use of forged document, or criminal conspiracy, because there was no factual foundation for the ingredients of the alleged offences and the later corrections were only grammatical. The prosecution against the petitioner was therefore unsustainable and the FIR was quashed. en-us Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:22:56 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296402 A quasi-judicial order passed by a Tahsildar under Section 12 of the Kerala Land Conservancy Act, 1957 does not attract prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 merely because it is alleged to be wrong or favourable to a private party; criminal misconduct requires material showing abuse of position, dishonest intent, and extraneous consideration, which was absent here. The FIR also failed to disclose forgery, use of forged document, or criminal conspiracy, because there was no factual foundation for the ingredients of the alleged offences and the later corrections were only grammatical. The prosecution against the petitioner was therefore unsustainable and the FIR was quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296402