JUDGMENT :

1. This is an application for anticipatory bail at the instance of a public servant anticipating arrest in connection with the First Information Report bearing I-C.R. No.6/2018 registered with the ACB Police Station, District Ahmedabad, for the offences punishable under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

2. One Manishkumar Ishwarlal Koshti lodged a first informant report dated 16.04.2018 at the concerned police station, inter alia, stating as under:

“My name is Manishkumar Ishwarlal Koshti, aged about adult, occupation business, residing at 63, Shiv Chamber, CTM Cross Roads, Ramol Road, Ahmedabad, Mobile Numbers 7874850282, 9909285835.

I dictate in person the fact of my complaint that I reside at the above stated address with my family and I earn my livelihood by doing work of signboard and other graphic related items on contract basis by the name of Kumkum Graphics.

I had undertaken a contract to put up a signboard of the L.G.Hospital, which is under the control and management of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and payment for the same was due. In this connection, I had met Mr.R.C.Shah, Superintendent of the L.G.Hospit