The Supreme Court has ruled that criminal proceedings against a company cannot be thrown out merely because investigators have not identified or charged a specific director, employee or other individual allegedly responsible for the offence. The ruling came in a case involving Sanofi India Ltd and a CBI investigation into alleged irregularities in the procurement of medicines for the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), a PTI report stated.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra dismissed Sanofi India's appeal against a Karnataka High Court order that had refused to quash the criminal proceedings.
