1. Shri Vinod Walia, Assistant Revenue Accountant, working in the office of the S.D.O., Electricity Operation, Sub Division. No. III, Sector 18, Chandigarh, has filed the present petition under Section 482, Cr. P.C., against the respondents with a prayer for quashing the case Crime No. RC-47/96-CHG registered by the C.B.I./S.P.E., Chandigarh, on 23-9-1996 for the offence under Sections 120-B, I.P.C. read with Sections 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, so far as it allegedly pertains to the petitioner.

2. On a complaint made by one Shri Ram Prakash Rana, House No. 2030, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, on 23-9-1996 to the Superintendent of Police, C.B.I., Sector 30, Chandigarh, case Crime No. 47/96-CHG has been registered against Rajinder Kumar, Junior Engineer, and the petitioner. It has been alleged in the complaint that the complaint is the proprietor of M/s. Blue Moon Tourist Bungalow, carrying on business in House No. 2030, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, Shri Balwant Singh is the owner of the said bungalow, who purchased the same from Shri Kartar Singh. The complaint had taken the said bungalow on rent from Shri Balwant Singh. There were two electricity meters installed in