ORDER :

The petitioner who is accused No.1 is seeking quashing of the entire proceedings in S.C.No.5004/2017 pending on the file of the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ballary, sitting at Hospet, for offences punishable under Sections 7 r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

2. The brief facts are that, on the complaint of CW1, a case came to be registered in Crime No.2/2015 by the Karnataka Lokayukta Police Station, Hospet, against the present petitioner and a civil police constable on 3/9/2015. The allegation is that on 2/9/2015 at about 8.45 pm, both the accused had stopped the lorry bearing registration No.KA-22/C-2154 driven by CW1 which was carrying sponge iron pellets on the ground that the lorry was overloaded, i.e. carrying freight beyond the permitted weight. The further allegation is that the present petitioner being the police inspector had abused the driver and had demanded an illegal gratification of Rs.15,000/-for releasing the truck. It is also alleged that thereafter, the accused had taken the lorry to a weighbridge and got it weighed and the lorry was taken to the R.T.O. office and it was left there and the accused-petitioner herein