ORDER :

1. The petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. for quashing the impugned order of sanction dated 19.03.2020 (Annexure P/18) issued by respondent No. 3 against the petitioner, the Special Case No. 01/2018 pending against the petitioner before the learned Special Judge, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Dantewada, District-Bastar (C.G.) as well as to quash and set aside the impugned charge-sheet No. 38/2016 dated 24.01.2018 (Annexure P/11) and supplementary charge-sheet No. 38-A/2016 dated 12.05.2020 (Annexure P/19).

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that in the year 2015-2016, when the petitioner was posted and serving as a Range Officer at Sukma, District- Bastar (C.G.) in the forest department of Government of Chhattisgarh, the respondent Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), Jagadalpur on a secret information that the petitioner earned and owned disproportionate properties, conducted a search operation on the house and other places allegedly owned and possessed by the petitioner. The ACB has recovered and seized certain properties and valuables allegedly belonging to the petitioner, his wife and one of his distant relatives. Based on the suc