https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301022 At the stage of framing charges in a Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution, the court must assess only whether a prima facie case and sufficient ground for proceeding exist, without conducting a detailed appraisal of evidence. It may, for that limited purpose, consider documents collected during investigation and produced before it, and where such material on its face shows that the ingredients of the offence are not made out, the charge can be quashed. The earlier direction to produce and consider the documents had attained finality, so the trial court was bound by it. On the available documents, including income-tax returns and assessment orders, the accused were found to be prima facie supported, and the discharge was upheld. en-us Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:14:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301022 At the stage of framing charges in a Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution, the court must assess only whether a prima facie case and sufficient ground for proceeding exist, without conducting a detailed appraisal of evidence. It may, for that limited purpose, consider documents collected during investigation and produced before it, and where such material on its face shows that the ingredients of the offence are not made out, the charge can be quashed. The earlier direction to produce and consider the documents had attained finality, so the trial court was bound by it. On the available documents, including income-tax returns and assessment orders, the accused were found to be prima facie supported, and the discharge was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=301022