https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=416841 Exoneration in departmental proceedings does not automatically bar criminal prosecution on the same factual foundation, particularly where the criminal case is governed by the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and its statutory presumptions. The Court distinguished the limited evidentiary scope of a domestic inquiry from the requirements of criminal proof, and held that acceptance of the inquiry report did not by itself render the prosecution case untenable. It also found that the cited precedent did not compel quashing of the FIRs or criminal proceedings on the facts presented, and that conviction could not be treated as wholly unlikely merely because the departmental authority had exonerated the petitioners. en-us Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:29:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=416841 Exoneration in departmental proceedings does not automatically bar criminal prosecution on the same factual foundation, particularly where the criminal case is governed by the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and its statutory presumptions. The Court distinguished the limited evidentiary scope of a domestic inquiry from the requirements of criminal proof, and held that acceptance of the inquiry report did not by itself render the prosecution case untenable. It also found that the cited precedent did not compel quashing of the FIRs or criminal proceedings on the facts presented, and that conviction could not be treated as wholly unlikely merely because the departmental authority had exonerated the petitioners. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=416841