1. The Petitioner, a General Manager in the Mysore Sales International Ltd. (‘Company’ for short), an undertaking of the Government of Karnataka, has filed this petition to quash a charge sheet, as at Annexure-A, issued by the Managing Director of the Company.

2. Committee on Public Undertakings of the Karnataka Legislature (for short, the ‘Committee’) conducted an enquiry and having found several acts of omissions and commissions attributable to the ‘then Managing Director’ and ‘other Officers’ resulting in the Company suffering huge loss, submitted its report to the Presiding Officers of both the Houses of the Karnataka Legislature on 28.09.2010. The report was laid on the table of both the Houses of the Legislature on 11.01.2011. The Committee made recommendations for stringent and immediate action being taken against the then Managing Director, the petitioner and a few other officials. Government of Karnataka by an order dated 09.08.2010, accorded sanction to Lokayukta, under Section 7(2-A) of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984, to investigate into the reported irregularities committed by the Management of the Company in the matter of Iron Ore Export to China vide Con