mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2850 OF 2009 Madanlal Welchand Parekh ... Petitioner versus Prabhakar Ambarushi Barbole & ors. ... Respondents ... Mr.J.G. Reddy for the petitioner Ms.A.T. Jhaveri APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 4th November 2009 P.C. 1. By this petition, the petitioner challenges the order dated 1st December 2007 passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class rejecting the petitioner’s application for joining Special Land Acquisition Officer and the Collector as party accused. 2. I am generally in agreement in the reasons given in the order and therefore it is not necessary to repeat the same reasons over here. In addition, there is one more ground on which in my view, the application would have to be rejected. 3. The persons sought to be joined as co­accused are public servants. No sanction for their prosecution u/s.197 has been obtained. In my view, they cannot be prosecuted without obtaining the sanction. For these reasons also, application deserves to be rejected. 3. Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)