Judgment :

1. The appellant-Central Bureau of Investigation has come up in this appeal against the order dated 20.4.2005 passed by the High Court of Delhi in Criminal Revision Petition No. 945 of 2003. In that Revision Petition, V.K. Bhutiani (respondent herein) had challenged the order on charge dated 23.8.2003 passed by the Special Judge, Delhi. Those charges are as under:

"I, P.K. Bhasin, Special Judge, Delhi hereby charge you V.K. Bhutiani, O.P. Rajvanshi, Mrs. Rashmi Aggarwal Parveen Aggarwal and Neeraj Jain as follows:

That your accused V.K. Bhutiani, while being posted as a Senior Manager in New Bank of India, E- Block, Connaught Circus, New Delhi and you accused O.P. Rajvanshi, Mrs. Rashmi Aggarwal, Praveen Aggarwal and Neeraj Jain along with S. Mohd. Yusuf (now dead) had entered into a criminal conspiracy sometime during November and December 1989 at New Delhi for defrauding/cheating New Bank of India to the tune of Rs. 17.20 lacs by resorting to cheating, forgery of documents in the nature of valuable securities and for using those documents for getting loan facilities to the extent of Rs.

17.20 lacs in the name of M/s. Vikram Enterprises, proprietorship concern of you, ac