(1.) BY this common judgment Criminal Misc. 7629-M of 1992 and Criminal Revision No. 709 of 1995 can conveniently be disposed of together.
(2.) THE sole question agitated in the above mentioned Criminal Miscellaneous and Criminal Revision is as to whether sanction under Section 197 Cr.P.C. to prosecute the petitioner is necessary or not.
(3.) IT has been urged that in the facts of the case it was necessary that before the Court could take the cognizance the sanction to prosecute, as contemplated under sub-section (1) of Section 197 Cr.P.C., should have been obtained. Sub-section (1) of Section 197 Code of Criminal Procedure reads :-