High Public Or Political Office - Definition - Law Dictionary

Definition :

High public or political office, the term 'high public or political office' used in the Special Courts Act, 1979 contemplates only a special class of officers or politicians who may be categorised as follows:

(1) officials wielding extraordinary powers entitling them to take major policy decisions and holding positions of trust and answerable and accountable for their wrongs;

(2) persons responsible for giving to the state a clean, stable and honest administration;

(3) persons occupying a very elevated status in whose hands lies the destiny of the nation, State (Delhi Administration) v. V.C. Shukla, AIR 1980 SC 1382 (1411): (1980) Supp SCC 249: (1980) 3 SCR 500. (Special Courts Act, 1979, Preamble)