JUDGMENT :

Mangesh S. Patil, J.

Heard.

2. Rule. The rule is made returnable forthwith. Learned A.P.P. waives notice for respondent/State. On the request of both the parties the matter is heard finally at the stage of admission.

3. The petitioners are challenging the order passed by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge Latur on their application (Exhibit 9) whereby their request for discharge was rejected.

4. The petitioners are the employees of a private school. The petitioner No. 1 is the Headmaster, petitioner No. 2 is the teacher and the petitioner No. 3 is the Clerk in that school. It is alleged that the petitioner No. 1 made a demand of bribe of an amount of Rs. 3000/- for issuing a transfer certificate to the son of the complainant. It is alleged that pursuant to such demand money was accepted by the petitioner No. 1 and the other two petitioners abetted commission of such crime. Accordingly they were charge-sheeted for the offences punishable under sections 7, 12, 13(1)(d), 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

5. The petitioners submitted the application (Exhibit 9) seeking discharge primarily on the ground that it is the Director of Education (Secondary and Higher Sec