Stating that an employee of the Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited (KMF) comes under the definition of ‘public servant’ of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, 1988, the High Court of Karnataka has declined to quash a disproportionate assets case registered against a general manager of KMF.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while rejecting the petition filed by V. Krishnareddy, who was working as general manager (Nandini Milk Products) when the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) registered case against him in November 2021 under the PC Act.
It was contended on behalf of the petitioner that PC Act is not applicable to him as he is ‘not a public servant’ as he is employed in KMF, a cooperative society.
