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M. NAGAPRASANNA
V. KRISHNAREDDY S/O VENKATARAMANA REDDY – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KARNATAKA – Respondent
ORDER :
1. The petitioner in the subject petition calls in question registration of crime against him in Crime No. 7/2021, for offences punishable under Sections 13(1)(b) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1998 (‘the Act’ for short) pending before the Principal District and Sessions Judge at Chikkaballapura.
2. Shorn of unnecessary details, facts in brief, are as follows:
3. A Police Inspector of Anti-Corruption Bureau, Central Zone, Bangalore (‘ACB’) submits a source report to the Superintendent of Police on 20-11-2021. After thorough scrutiny of the documents of the petitioner with regard to assets, liabilities and annual returns, he holds that disproportionate assets of the petitioner were to the t
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