ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. This is a petition for special leave to appeal under Article 136 of the Constitution from the judgment and order dated 12.7.2007 of the High Court of Judicature at Patna in L.P.A. No. 521 of 2007. By the impugned judgment, the High Court has dismissed the appeal.

3. The relevant facts are, the appellant is the wife of deceased Bhrigu Ashram Prasad. While he was alive, he was working as an Assistant in Bihar School Examination Board.

4. Sometime in the year 1976, the appellant’s husband was kept under suspension on account of initiation of criminal proceedings against the appellant’s husband and other employees of the Board for tempering with the Marks Sheets of several candidates who had appeared in the Annual Secondary School Examination.

5. On the complaint filed by the Board, the jurisdictional police authorities had filed charge sheet against the appellant’s husband and other employees of the Board under Section 420, 467, 471, 458 and 120-B of the I.P.C. before Judicial Magistrate, Patna. After the trial, the Judicial Magistrate had convicted the appellant’s husband and other employees of the Board for the offences alleged in the charge sheet and sent