State Bank Of Patiala & Ors vs S.K.Sharma on 27 March, 1996
13. State Bank of Patiala Vs. S. K. Sharma (supra) while
summarizing the principles, which it has held not to be
exhaustive, holds that in case of violation of a procedural 15
provision, the complaint should be examined from the point of
view of prejudice. The judgment itself creates exceptions to this in
respect of cases falling under 'no notice, no opportunity and no
hearing categories'. As indicated above, the requirement of
providing documents which form a part and parcel of the 20
chargesheet cannot be termed to be a procedural requirement
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and thus the present case would clearly be covered by the
exceptions as indicated in para 33(3) therein and there cannot be
any question of applying the test of prejudice.