ORDER :

The State, represented by the Director, Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau, assails Annexure-C order of the Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, by which the Special Judge directed the VACB to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the allegations raised in Crl.M.P.242/2020, filed by the first respondent herein and to file report within 40 days.

2. The entire facts as is discernible from the records produced in the revision and the records produced by the first respondent is narrated as follows;

3. The first respondent herein is the leader of opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. The second respondent is the District Collector, Pathanamthitta, who is also the Chairman of District Disaster Management Authority. The third respondent is the former Chief Secretary of the State of Kerala and the 4th respondent is the Managing Director of Kerala Clays and Ceramic Products Ltd. Kannur., a public limited company, wholly owned and controlled by Government of Kerala. During the unprecedent rains in August 2018, huge quantity of sand got deposited in Pampa-Triveni Sangamam in Pathanamthitta area. According to the complainant, the Forest and Wild Life Departm