The High Court of Karnataka has quashed criminal proceedings initiated against senior IPS officer Alok Kumar by a special court in 2022 without sanction for prosecuting him in a bribery complaint linked to a criminal case registered on the incident of a quarrel between the managing staff of Orange Bar and a group of customers in Vyalikaval police limits in Bengaluru during 2014.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Mr. Kumar, who had questioned the legality of the special court’s December 13, 2022, order of taking cognisance of the offence against him.
“Since there is no sanction accorded to prosecute the petitioner prior to the order of the learned sessions judge taking cognisance of the offence, I deem it appropriate to obliterate the proceedings against the petitioner, reserving liberty to the special court to proceed against the petitioner only after a valid sanction from the hands of the competent authority is placed before it,” Justice Nagaprasanna observed.
