ORDER :

JAGDISH PRASAD GUPTA, J.

1. This order shall govern the disposal of both the aforesaid cases which have been filed challenging the common order dated 19.1.2018 passed by the Special Judge, Lokayukta Jabalpur in Crime No. 115/2011 whereby the closure report filed by the Special Police (Lokayukt) in respect of the accused persons under Sections 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and under Sections 109 and 120-B of the IPC has been disallowed directing the Lokayukta police to place all the original documents/records and the material collected during the investigation before the Sanctioning authority for obtaining sanction for prosecution against the concerned governments employees/accused persons.

2. The facts of the case, in brief, are that the respondents namely Shivendra Singh, G.N. Singh, Tarun Kumar Anand, Shyam Mandal, S.C. Jain and Vishal Pachori (now dead) were posted at Jabalpur Development Authority, Jabalpur and were discharging their duties in their respective capacity and respondent S.K. Mahawar was posted at Town and Country Planning, District Jabalpur and was discharging his duty as Joint Director. Respondents Shankar Manchani (Als