The Police Inspector, Anti-corruption Bureau lodged the

F.I.R. on 19.11.2021 alleging that, he has received complaint

from the general public, that some of the officials of Bengaluru

Development Authority (in short 'BDA') are acting unlawfully to

favour certain private persons by illegally allotting sites, and at

the time of allotment, they manipulated the civic amenities

sites register, and were allotting sites to persons of their

choice. It is further alleged that there were variance in the

register cum sale deed and absolute sale deed and by creating

bogus documents, sites were allotted by some of the officials of

BDA illegally. The F.I.R. was registered for the offence under

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Sections 7(a), 7(A), 8, 12, 13(1)(a) read with Section 13(2) of

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

On 22.03.2022, respondent No.2 conducted the

search of the residential premises of the petitioner at #265,

2nd Block, 6th Main Road, R.T.Nagar, Bengaluru and in office

premises at #344, 2nd Cross, 1st Block, R.T.Nagar, Bengaluru.

Thereafter, by drawing panchanama seized few property

related documents and two mobile phones belonging to the

petitioner. On the very same day i.e., on 22.03.2022 sear