ORDER :

The petitioner/Karnataka Lokayukta Police represented by its Police Inspector/Investigating Officer is before this Court calling in question orders dated 28-01-2017 and 31-05-2017, passed by the 1st respondent/Government declining to accord sanction to prosecute the 3rd respondent.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, facts in brief necessary for consideration of the lis, are as follows:

The 3rd respondent was a Government Servant and at the relevant point in time was working as Police Inspector, State Intelligence in the Home Department. The petitioner registers a case in Crime No.8 of 2012 on 28-11-2012, against the respondent on receiving an information of commission of cognizable offence under Section 13(1)(e) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short 'the Act'), for possessing assets disproportionate to his known source of income. The check period, according to the said registration of crime was from 29.08.1977, till the date of registration of the FIR i.e., 28.11.2012. After completion of investigation, the petitioner claims to have prepared a final report alleging that third respondent had amassed wealth disproportionate of his known source of inc