https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299923 Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act requires previous sanction from the authority competent to remove the public servant, and a sanction issued by an incompetent officer is not a curable irregularity. Where service rules vested appointment and removal powers in the Board of Directors, sanctions issued by the Company Secretary and later by the Chairman and Managing Director, without Board authorisation, were defective; the later sanction was also retrospective and came after cognizance. The document states that such defects left the prosecution without valid sanction at the time cognizance was taken, rendering the cognizance without jurisdiction. en-us Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:56:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299923 Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act requires previous sanction from the authority competent to remove the public servant, and a sanction issued by an incompetent officer is not a curable irregularity. Where service rules vested appointment and removal powers in the Board of Directors, sanctions issued by the Company Secretary and later by the Chairman and Managing Director, without Board authorisation, were defective; the later sanction was also retrospective and came after cognizance. The document states that such defects left the prosecution without valid sanction at the time cognizance was taken, rendering the cognizance without jurisdiction. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299923