ORDER :

1. Assailing the order, dated 19.03.2020, of the learned Special Judge for SPE & ACB Cases-cum-Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Vijayawada, passed in Crl. M.P. No. 88 of 2020 in Crime No. 07/RCA-ACB-CIU-2017, whereby he has dismissed the petition filed under Sections 451 and 457 Cr.P.C. the present Criminal Petition is filed.

2. Facts germane for disposal of this Criminal Petition may briefly be stated as follows:

(a) The petitioner is an employee, working as Additional Director in the office of the Commissioner of Industries, Vijayawada, in Andhra Pradesh. On the allegation that the petitioner has been in possession of assets acquired by him in his name and in the name of his family members, relatives and close associates, which are disproportionate to his known source of income, the Anti-Corruption Bureau police registered a case against him under Section 13(2) r/w. 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, (for short the “P.C. Act”). On the same day i.e. on 05.06.2017, the ACB police have searched his house and other premises and seized certain property. At that time, they found Bank passbook of Axis Bank in the name of the petitioner. So, during the course