https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=769612 A public servant cannot be prosecuted solely for criminal conspiracy under Section 120-B IPC where sanction for prosecution under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 has been expressly declined and no independent substantive IPC offence is alleged. The stated conspiracy must be examined against its object: if it is confined to demand of illegal gratification forming the basis of a corruption offence under the Act, the prosecution cannot bypass the statutory bar by recasting the matter as conspiracy. Section 19 is a substantive safeguard, and an indirect attempt to achieve by IPC prosecution what the Act prohibits directly is legally unsustainable. en-us Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:17:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=769612 A public servant cannot be prosecuted solely for criminal conspiracy under Section 120-B IPC where sanction for prosecution under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 has been expressly declined and no independent substantive IPC offence is alleged. The stated conspiracy must be examined against its object: if it is confined to demand of illegal gratification forming the basis of a corruption offence under the Act, the prosecution cannot bypass the statutory bar by recasting the matter as conspiracy. Section 19 is a substantive safeguard, and an indirect attempt to achieve by IPC prosecution what the Act prohibits directly is legally unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=769612