ORDER :

The petitioner is before this Court calling in question registration of crime in Crime No.24 of 2022 for offences punishable under Section 13(1)(b) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 ('the Act' for short).

2. Succinctly stated, facts germane for a decision are as follows :

The petitioner is a public servant working as an Executive Engineer in the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited. This case brings out a strange circumstance where the petitioner is hauled into the impugned proceedings. A little background for such hauling of the petitioner into the web of the provisions of the Act is that, a crime in Crime No.23 of 2022 was registered against one Sri J.Jnanendra Kumar, Additional Commissioner for Transport by the respondent/Anti-Corruption Bureau. The crime against one Sri J.Jnanendra Kumar was registered on 15-03-2022 on an allegation that he possessed disproportionate assets to the known source of income. In connection with the case registered against one Sri J. Jnanendra Kumar the house of one Sri Munavar Pasha was searched on 16.03.