BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court in a recent judgement held that Section 104 of the Criminal Procedure Code empowers a court to impound any document placed before it, but not passports.
Allowing the petition filed by Praveen Surendiran, arraigned as accused no.10 in a case where crores of rupees were siphoned off Manipal Education and Medical Group, Justice M Nagaprasanna said that a passport can be impounded only by the competent authority in terms of Section 10 of Passport Act 1967.
