JUDGMENT

(Prayer: This Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., to call for the records in Crime No.10/AC of 2021 on the file of Inspector of Police, Vigilance and Anti Corruption, Salem District and quash the same.)

1. The second accused in Cr.No.10/AC of 2021 on the file of the Inspector of Police (Vigilance and Anti Corruption) Salem, seeks quashment of the FIR qua the petitioner.

2. The petitioner is arrived as Accused No.2 in Crime No.10/AC of 2021, which was registered by Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Salem for the offences under Sections 120B, 167, 409, 420 of IPC and Sections 13(2), 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 as amended by the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 for the occurrence took place in the year 2017 to 2019.

3. The case of the prosecution is that

(i) The petitioner is an Assistant Executive Engineer of Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Board, Salem Division and arrayed as A2. The A1 who is Executive Engineer entrusted with the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Housing, failed to conduct field inspection along with A2 to A4 and ascertain that all the applicants having any concrete roofed houses by their own and after confirmi