JUDGMENT

Ext.P5 order dated 18.7.2018, Ext.P7 order dated 5.9.2018 and Ext.P11 order dated 20.10.2020 under the Right to Information Act, 2005 on behalf of the petitioner, retired Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs, has been assailed in the present Writ Petition. On the basis of the case booked by the third respondent Deputy Director of Central Bureau of Investigation, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACP), Kochi, that while working in a Unaccompanied Baggage Section, Air Cargo, Thiruvananthapuram, certain sundry goods baggage of NRI labourers, on 12.7.2012, were cleared without proper assessment, the retirement benefit of the petitioner have been withheld. On the basis of the aforementioned allegation, three Superintendents, eight Inspectors, one passenger and six custom house agents were arrayed as accused in the case pending before the Special Judge (SPE/CBE), Thiruvanthapuram bearing No.CC 2/2015.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the Investigating Officer committed a criminal misconduct in presenting two different documents with material alterations in the contents of the statements dated 1.11.2013 recorded under Section 161 of the C