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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed NewsClick human resources head and recently-turned approver Amit Chakraborty to withdraw his plea challenging his arrest by the Delhi police. Last week, Chakraborty was allowed by a Delhi court to turn approver in the case, and was granted a pardon. A bench of Justices BR Gavai, Sanjay Karol, and Sandeep Mehta was hearing the …

Section 306(4) CrPC Allows Approver's Bail Before Trial Completion on Meeting Pardon Conditions

An approver who has complied with all conditions of pardon and deposed as a witness in the prosecution's favor need not remain incarcerated till the end of the trial and would be entitled to bail, especially in case of a protracted trial, the Bombay High Court held. “In my opinion, now that the applicant has complied with the conditions and …

Faridkot : The Faridkot chief judicial magistrate rejected application of an accused to become approver and be pardoned in the ₹20-lakh bribery case linked to a probe into the 2019 murder of the Faridkot dera deputy head. The Faridkot chief judicial magistrate rejected application of an accused to become approver and be pardoned in the ₹ 20-lakh bribery case linked …

Application To Become Approver Cannot Be Withdrawn Once Pardon Is Granted: Bombay High Court

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court recently held that an accused cannot withdraw application to become a witness for the prosecution against co-accused once the application is accepted and pardon is already granted. would show that after acceptance of pardon in view of the scheme of Sections 306 to 308 the approver has no choice or option or …

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The Kerala High Court recently held that it is mandatory for the Magistrate to examine an accused who was tendered pardon under section 306 of CrPC, prior to committing the case to the Sessions Court. Without examining the approver as a witness, the Magistrate Court deleted the name of the approver from the array of the accused and committed the …

Former Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze, who was granted a pardon by the special CBI court in Mumbai in the Anil Deshmukh case this week, joined the Maharashtra Police in 1990. However, after the first witness testified, the special public prosecutor in the case moved an application asking for another set of police officers to be made accused apart from …

The Central Bureau of Investigation has consented for the grant of pardon with certain conditions to dismissed Mumbai police inspector Sachin Waze in the corruption case also involving former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. Waze, who was suspended in the early 2000s in a custodial death case, claimed that Deshmukh demanded money to facilitate his reinstatement in the police force on …

Sachin Waze writes to ED seeking pardon, turn approver in Anil Deshmukh case

'Non-Cooperation During Investigation Is Irrelevant In Plea For Revocation Of Pardon': Delhi HC Dismisses ED's Plea Against Grant Of Pardon To Rajiv Saxena [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has held that the condition of pardon of a court approver- to make "full and true disclosure"- applies to the proceedings before the Court, and do not encompass the proceedings during investigation. The court observed that the Dubai-based businessman was yet to be examined by the Trial Court, and merely because the Public Prosecutor had issued …

Jailed-media baron Indrani Mukerjea on Thursday turned approver in the INX Media corruption case in which former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti are accused. The judge pardoned Indrani Mukerjea, also accused in the INX case, after she submitted that she voluntarily agreed to become the approver. Their names had cropped up in the case involving Rs 305 …