JUDGMENT

1. This petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed by the petitioner for quashment of the FIR bearing crime no. 493/2021 registered at Police Station Budhar, district Shahdol for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC' and other consequential proceedings arising thereof.

2. A brief recapitulation of the facts of the instant case is necessary. On 15.6.2021 the FIR in question has been got lodged by one Dilip Kumar Nigam, Block Education Officer, Block Budhar, District Shahdol, against the present petitioner, making allegations in writing that the present petitioner was posted as Block Education Officer at Budhar Block, District Shahdol from 2nd of June, 2014 till 3rd of February 2020 and during this period, besides departmental bank accounts, he had opened supposititious two additional bank accounts without prior approval of the authorities concerned in the name of Prabandhak Vyasayak Prakshishan Kendra, Budhar and another in the name of Block Education Officer, Budhar. He had transferred the funds from the original bank account to the accounts opened by him and had siphoned s