The bar on reporting will deter false cases brought with the intention of maligning public officials, the government feels. The basic idea is that public officials need to be protected from legal harassment for their official actions. Three questions have been raised in the public debate on the provision of prior sanction in the Bill. Second, since evidence of an alleged offence is collected through an investigation, how will an authority sanction investigation in the absence of evidence? But this law differs from the Rajasthan Bill in two key respects.

Source: Indian Express October 24, 2017 20:23 UTC