JUDGMENT - Naik, J.

(1) These applications have been made by original accused Nos. 1 and 2 respectively under section 561-A Criminal Procedure Code for quashing the proceedings that are going before the Special Judge, Greater Bombay. The few facts, that are necessary for deciding the points that were urged o behalf of the applicants, may be set out as follows: Accused No. 2 is the Head master of a municipal school known as the Lower Parel Municipal Hindi School, and accused No. 1 is an Assistant teacher in the same institution. The son of one Rajaram Jadhav had passed the first standard in the said school and in the ordinary course, he would have been promoted to the second standard. It appears that accused Nos. 1 and 2 gave a promiss to Rajaram that accelerated promotion would be granted to his son and instead of promoting him to the second standard, he would be given a jump and promoted to the third standard. For that purpose, they demanded a bribe of RS. 20. Rajaram filed a complaint to the Anticorruption Bureau, Bombay on 10th September, 1958, and his statement was recorded by Police Sub-Inspector Patil and was treated as first information in the case. The same day, Police Sub-I

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