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Publication: The Times of India
Date: June 9, 2007
Politicians like Mayawati, Satish Sharma and Sheila Kaul, besides a large number of civil servants, have been let off the hook in corruption cases by authorities refusing to grant sanction for their prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act, a PIL complained before the supreme court.
"The discretion under section 19 to grant sanction for prosecution in corruption cases has been misused to such an extent that even after the apex court had held the politicians to be corrupt and dishonest sanction has been refused by the competent authority,'' petitioner Manzoor Ali Khan said through his counsel D K Garg.
The petitioner also requested the court to strike down of section 19 as unconstitutional.
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