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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, KALABURAGI BENCH
V.SRISHANANDA
State of Karnataka, Through Karnataka Lokayukta Police Vijayapura, Rep. By. Spl. Prosecutor Lokayukta, High Court of Karnataka – Appellant
Versus
Shashidhar Jagdish Madyal – Respondent
ORDER :
(V SRISHANANDA, J.)
1. Heard Sri. Subhash Mallapur, learned Special Public Prosecutor for the petitioner-Lokayukta and Sri. Deepak V. Barad, learned counsel appearing for the respondent.
2. Lokayukta, Vijayapura has preferred the present revision petition against the order dated 31.08.2020 passed in Special (Lok) Case No.2/2017, whereby, the respondent has been discharged from the charge-sheet that has been filed under Section 13 (1)(e) read with Section 13 (2) of Prohibition of Corruption Act and under Section 465 , 468 , 471 read with Section 420 of IPC .
3. The facts in the nutshell for disposal of the present revision petition are as under:
The respondent is working was Sheristedar in taluka office, Vijayapura and later was promoted as Tahasildar. Based on a source of information, the Karnataka Lokayukta, Vijayapura, has started observing the income and expenditure of the respondent and check period commenced from 15.09.1990 to 22.11.2011. After keeping the track of the income and expenditure, an FIR came to be filed and investigation was conducted by the Lokayukta Police and after thorough investigation and collection of necessary documentary evidence on record, Lokayukta P
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