Connivance - Indian Laws - General

Connivance According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, connive means- to secretly allow a wrong doing where as consent is permission. The proof required is of consent for the publication and not connivance on publication. In Charan Lal Sahu v. Giani Zail Singh and another (1984) 1 SCC 390, this Court held as under: 30. Connivance may in certain situations amount to consent, which explains why the dictionaries give consent as one of the meanings of the word connivance . But it is not true to say that connivance invariably and necessarily means or amounts to consent, that is to say, irrespective of the context of the given situation. The two cannot, therefore, be equated. Consent implies that parties are ad idem. Connivance does not necessarily imply that parties are of one mind. They may or may not be, depending upon the facts of the situation. ANVAR P.V VERSUS P.K. BASHEER AND OTHERS - 2014 (9) TMI 1007 - SUPREME COURT