By Court: This application is directed against the order dated 28.2.2000 passed by Special Judge, CBI, Patna in Special Case No.22 of 1996 whereby and whereunder prayer for discharge of the petitioner has been rejected.

The facts leading to filing this application are that when it was detected that huge amount of money had been withdrawn from the Chaibasa Treasury on the basis of forged, fabricated and fake bills relating to supply of the medicines/materials to the Animal Husbandry Department, a case was instituted against the officials of the Animal Husbandry Department as well as Treasury and also against the suppliers. Subsequently investigation of the case was taken over by the CBI, who registered it as R.C.20(A) of 1996.

In course of investaccording to CBI, reveal some persons, who were igation, certain facts were collected which that the petitioner was in league with involved in fraudulent withdrawal of huge amount of money from the Treasury and those facts, according to the CBI, are that the petitioner in league with Lalu Prasad, the then Chief Minister had given political patronage to the Scam stars which gets established from the fact that when Minister of Animal