NEW DELHI: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court held Friday that the preliminary inquiry is not mandatory in all corruption cases and a formal or informal information disclosing a cognizable offence will be sufficient to initiate prosecution.
The type of preliminary inquiry, if necessary, will depend on the facts and circumstances of each case, it said.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta set aside the order of the Hyderabad High Court of December 24, 2018, which had quashed the criminal proceedings initiated in a disproportionate assets case against a police officer as, among other things, no preliminary probe was conducted before lodging an FIR against him. (AGENCIES)
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