Dharnidhar Jha, J.-The present appeal under Section 17 of the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009 ('the Act' in short) has been preferred by the appellants, who had been asked to explain by an appropriate notice issued under Section 14 of the Act the acquisition .of different properties, total value of which stood, as per the petition filed by the State of Bihar, at Rs.9.71.761. The above corpus of properties was acquired by appellant Yogendra Kumar Singh, who had joined as a Suit Clerk in Gaya Municipal Corporation on 7.2.1966 and was retired from service as Upper Division Clerk on 31.3.2005. In between, he was acting as the Revenue Officer of the above noted Municipal Corporation and as per the allegation, which emanated from some anonymous petition filed before the District Magistrate, Gaya, the graph of financial progress of appellant no. 1 had taken a sharp ascent due to his indulgence in realizing bribe and acquisition of properties by commission of offence as defined under Section 2(d) of the Act.

2. What appears further is that the District Magistrate sent the petition to the Vigilance Department and an internal enquiry continued for many more years and lastly, on that p