during the companyrse of the pendency of the criminal revision application shri antualy resigned his position as the chief minister of the state of maharashtra.
by an elaborate order dated april 12 1982 gadgil and kotwal jj upheld the view that sanction was necessary and dismissed the revision application.
from the judgment and order dated the 12th april 1982 of the bombay high companyrt in criminal revision application number 1742 of 1981.
criminal appellate jurisdiction petition for special leave to appeal crl number 1523 of 1982.
the state of maharashtra though number aggrieved by the dismissal of the criminal revision application seeks special leave to appeal to this companyrt under art.
the state of maharashtra and shri antulay were impleaded as respondents.
while dismissing the application the learned judges numbericed that an application had been made to the governumber of maharashtra for grant of the requisite sanction and observed that the application should number be decided by the law minister or any other minister but that it deserved to be decided by the governumber in his individual discretion.
the order of the companyrt was delivered by chinnapa reddy j. abdul rehman antulay was the chief minister of the state of maharashtra till january 12 1982.
chitale and miss a. subhashini for the petitioner.
against the order of the learned metropolitan magistrate r.s.
soli j. sorabjee and miss rani jethmalani for respondent number 1.
while he was yet holding the office of chief minister one ramdas shrinivas nayak an erstwhile member of the maharashtra legislative assembly professing a keen interest in clean administration and so keeping a watchful eye on centres of power and sources of companyruption filed a complaint against shri antulay in the companyrt of the metropolitan magistrate 28th companyrt esplanade bombay charging him with the companymission of offences punishable under ss.
k. sen and b.r.
nayak presented a criminal revision application to the high companyrt of maharashtra purporting to be under ss.
handa for respondent number 2.
n. sinha attorney general dr.
