JUDGMENT :

Heard the parties.

2. This Criminal Miscellaneous Petition has been filed with a prayer for quashing the entire criminal proceeding including the Order dated 30.09.2019 taking cognizance for the offences punishable under Section 120 (B), 201, 420, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 13 (2) read with Section 13 (1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 in R.C. Case No. 04(A)/2013-R passed by learned A.J.C.-XVI-cum-Special Judge, C.B.I., Ranchi inter alia against the petitioner.

3. The brief facts of the case is that the co-accused persons respectively being the member, examination controller-cum-secretary of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission thus public servants along with a private person of M/s. Global Informatics and inter alia the petitioner entered into a criminal conspiracy and in pursuance of the said criminal conspiracy, the public servants in abuse of their respective official positions dishonestly and fraudulently manipulated/allowed to manipulate the merit list, assessment charts of the selection process of lecturers of the three universities of Jharkhand to extend undue benefit to their preferred candidates including the petitioner a