Dharam Sarup vs The State on 8 August, 1952
In State v. Karim Bux, 1950 ALL. L.J. 383, I had a case before me in which there was no specific order sanctioning the prosecution of the applicant. The charge sheet was sent to the S. P. (who happened to be also the officer who could have accorded the necessary sanction for the prosecution of the accused). The S. P. merely as an officer responsible for the prosecution in the ordinary way, wrote down on the charge sheet which was submitted to him that "it may be sent to the proper Court through the Chief Inspector." I held that this order could not be construed as sanction to prosecute because it did not appear that the S. P. had applied his mind to the question whether he should sanction the prosecution of the accused or not, and that he had merely forwarded the charge sheet to the Court in the normal manner as any head of the police would do in ordinary cases that were investigated and desired to be sent to the Court for trial. I further observed that: