( 1 ) THIS is a criminal revision directed against the order dated 25. 7. 2001 passed by the Special Judge. Anticorruption (Central), U. P. Lucknow in Criminal Case No. 39 of 1998, State v. Udai Narain and Another by which the Trial Court rejected the objection raised by the accused revisionist and held that the prosecution sanction dated 8. 5. 1996 accorded againstthe accused revisionist by Tarsem Lal, the Under Secretary, Government of India is complete and valid.

( 2 ) THE facts and the circumstances giving rise to the present revision as narrated in the charge- sheet are that revisionist Udai Narain was functioning as Additional Collector, Central Excise at Allahabad/lucknow during November, 1993 and while functioning as such on 8. 11. 1993. Shri N. P. Tiwari, Dy. S. P. (CBI) accompanied by Inspectors B. C. Shanna: Ashok Babu, Haripal Sehgal. Chief Manager. PNB, Sadar Bazar Branch. Lucknow, A. A. Kazmi, Dy. Manager, (Vig.) PCI, RO, Lucknow, C. A. Ram Sundaram, Manager, PNB, Zonal Office, Lucknow intercepted a Fiat. Car bearing Registration No. MEN-14 accompanied by the revisionist and the coaccused Abdul Aziz Sreshamwala at Amausi Airport and saw the transaction