JUDGMENT

S. K. SAHOO, J. - The petitioner Manoranjan Samal has filed this revision petition under Section 401 read with Section 397 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to set aside the impugned order dated 16.02.2016 passed by the learned Special Judge (Vigilance), Balasore in T.R. Case No.47 of 2010 in rejecting his petition under Section 239 of Cr.P.C. for discharge with a further prayer to set aside the impugned order dated 13.09.2016 in framing charges under Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d)(ii) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (hereafter for short ‘1988 Act’). The said case arises out of Balasore Vigilance P.S. Case No.17 of 2010.

2. The case was registered under Section 7 of 1988 Act on 20.05.2010 on the first information report submitted by one Kali Charan Sahoo of village-Rajpur wherein he stated that he is a business man dealing with paddy and used to collect paddy from different cultivators of Balasore and Bhadrak districts and sell it at Medinipur of West Bengal. He further stated that he was making necessary tax payment at R.M.C. as per the rules of the Government at the rate of two per cent on the fixed rate of paddy and used to produ