JUDGMENT

Gurvinder Singh Gill, J. - This order shall dispose of the above mentioned two petitions wherein petitioners Gagandeep Goyal and Pradeep Kumar, seek grant of anticipatory bail in a case registered vide FIR No.09, dated 28.7.2022, Police Station Economic Offences Wing Vigilance Bureau, Ludhiana, under Sections 7, 7-A, 8, 12, 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in the year 2018), Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC (Sections 65, 66, 66-C, 66-D of the Information and Technology Act, 2000 added later on).

2. Since, the present case i.e. FIR No.9, dated 28.7.2022, came to be registered during the course of investigation of another FIR i.e. FIR No.8, dated 14.7.2022, Police Station Vigilance Bureau, Economic Offences Wing Punjab, Ludhiana, under Sections 7, 7-A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 as amended by the Amendment Act, 2018, Section 120-B IPC, it is apposite to briefly refer to the facts of the said FIR i.e. FIR No.8. The aforesaid FIR No.8, was registered with the specific allegation that Harmeet Singh posted as Junior Assistant in Ludhiana Improvement Trust, was demanding bribe for himself as well as on behalf of Parveen Kumar, Sales C