JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsels for both the Parties.

3. The background facts of the case are that the Petitioner No.1, entered into the Govt. Service on 08.12.1986, as a Forester, under the DFO, Wild Life Division, Chandbali and later promoted to the post of Forest Range Officer, wherein he worked in different places and further promoted to the post of Asst. Conservator of Forest on 27.09.2018. A vigilance raid was conducted in the house of the Petitioners for alleged accumulation of the property disproportionate to his known source of income during the check period from 08.12.1986 to 31.12.2019. It is alleged that the Petitioner No.1, intentionally enriched himself illicitly by acquiring and possessing assets, disproportionate to his known source of Income and his wife abetted the act by acquiring portion of disproportionate property and for so doing, the Lokayukta vide letter No.270/LY, dated 21.09.2021, in