Karnataka High Court, in the case of Karnataka Lokayuktha Police vs. T. Manjunath (CMP No. 422/2018), on July 26, 2024, dismissed the employee’s petition to quash criminal proceedings under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The employee argued that the case should be dropped because he had already been cleared in the departmental proceedings and that the allegations in both the departmental inquiry and the criminal case were identical. However, the Court did not accept this argument and observed that when criminal misconduct, such as illegal demands for money supported by evidence from a raid, is alleged, the case must still be tried in court. The Court concluded that exoneration in the departmental inquiry does not prevent the criminal trial from proceeding.
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