JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., to call for the records to quash the FIR No.14/2021 on the file of the 1st respondent pending disposal of the above Criminal Original Petition.)

1. The present Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash FIR.No.14 of 2021, which at the time when the present petition was filed had been registered by the District Crime Branch, Coimbatore. The said FIR had been registered against the petitioner who was the only accused for commission of alleged offences under Sections 408 and 420 IPC and under Sections 13(1)(c), 13(1)(d)(i), 13(1)(d)(ii), 13(1)(d)(iii) and 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

2. Taking a ground that the offences alleged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against a public servant should be enquired into only by the Vigilance and Anti-/Corruption Department and therefore seeking to quash the FIR, the present petition had been filed.

3. The present petition had been heard on various occasions and on 08.06.2021, a learned Single Judge of this Court when urged to grant stay of investigation, had declined to grant stay and in the course of the said order, h