JUDGMENT :

PANKAJ BHATIA, J.

1. Present revision has been filed challenging the order dated 20.04.2024 passed by learned Special Judge, Anti Corruption, Central Bureau of Investigation (Central) Lucknow in Criminal Case No. 01 of 2012 (Union of India through C.B.I. v. Sanjaya Dikshit and Others) whereby the discharge application preferred by the revisionist came to be dismissed.

2. The facts, in brief, leading to filing of the present revision are as under:

(i) The revisionist joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer and subsequently promoted to the post of Deputy General Manager in the year 2008; he joined as Branch Head of the Kanpur Branch on 17.05.2008. The appointing authority of the revisionist is the Executive Committee of the Central Board of the State Bank of India. While the revisionist was working as a Branch Head of the Bank at Kanpur, a First Information Report came to be lodged against the revisionist and 11 other persons on the basis of a complaint dated 13.08.2009 lodged by the General Manager, State Bank of India, Lucknow. After investigation, a charge-sheet came to be filed on 25.03.2011. As regards the revisionist, the allegation against him was that an a