https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309841 At the quashing stage, the court examines only whether the charge-sheets and supporting material disclose a cognizable offence and a prima facie case, not the ultimate truth or probability of the evidence. The allegations of manipulation in contracts, tendering, pricing and decision-making were treated as sufficient to proceed on charges of criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct. Persons originally named in the FIR could be examined as witnesses without prior pardon where they were not accomplices in the legal sense. The objection based on absence of prior approval under Section 6-A of the DSPE Act was rejected, and the investigation and prosecution were not treated as invalid. en-us Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:48:51 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309841 At the quashing stage, the court examines only whether the charge-sheets and supporting material disclose a cognizable offence and a prima facie case, not the ultimate truth or probability of the evidence. The allegations of manipulation in contracts, tendering, pricing and decision-making were treated as sufficient to proceed on charges of criminal conspiracy and criminal misconduct. Persons originally named in the FIR could be examined as witnesses without prior pardon where they were not accomplices in the legal sense. The objection based on absence of prior approval under Section 6-A of the DSPE Act was rejected, and the investigation and prosecution were not treated as invalid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309841