The solitary question, which arises for consideration by this Court in this writ petition (Cr.), is as to whether the State or the State authority concerned- the Electricity Board has any power of review in the matter of grant of sanction in terms of Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short “the Code”).

2. The facts of the case, which is relevant for the purposes of consideration of the above question, in short, is that at the instance of the Secretary of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board, an F.I.R. was instituted on 20.01.2011 being Vigilance P.S. Case no. 02 of 2011 with the allegation that the Electrical Executive Engineer namely Sri P.K.Sinha, the Financial Controller namely Sri Umesh Kumar and other responsible officers posted in the Jharkhand State Electricity Board have misused their official position and committed irregularities in APDRP Project under Package ‘D’ for Jamshedpur vide work order no. 28/APDRP-64 and 29/APDRP-64 dated 27.01.2005. Accordingly, the F.I.R. was lodged under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 477 and 120-B of the I.P.C. and also under Section 13(ii) read with Section 13(i)(c) and (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act. The