JUDGMENT

N. V. RAMANA., J.

1. Leave granted.

2. These appeals are filed against the common order passed by the High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru, in Writ Petition No (s). 21782, 38450, 38451 and 38498 of 2014, and Criminal Petition No. 7166 of 2015, wherein the High Court has quashed the proceedings instituted against the accused respondents.

3. There are two separate and distinct crimes alleged to have been committed by the different individuals. Therefore, we would like to note both set of facts so as to understand the issue at hand.

4. The first set of facts pertain to Crime No. 103/2013 registered under Section 13(1)(e) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 [PC Act] against one H. Srinivas (respondent in SLP (Crl.) No. 5391/2017). On 25.10.2013, Police Inspector, Karnataka Lokayuktha, Davanagere Division, submitted a Source Report against the Respondent/accused, who was working as Assistant Engineer, Jagaluru Pattana Panchayat, Davangere District, for having acquired disproportionate assets against his known source of income. It may be relevant to extract a part of the source report as under :

It is hereby stated that AE Sri. H. Srinivasa, Assistant Eng