S.C. Agrawal, J.

In the General Election for the Tenth Lok Sabha held in 1991 the Congress (I) part, emerged as the single largest party and it formed the Government with P.V. Narsimha Rao [hereinafter referred to as 'A-1] as the Prime Minister. In the Monsoon Session of Lok Sabha July 1993 a 'No Confidence Motion' was moved against the Government by Shri Ajay Mukhopadhyaya, a CPI(M) M.P. At that time the effective strength of the House (Lok Sabha) was 528 and Congress (I) party had 251 members. It was short by 14 members for simple majority. The Motion of No-Confidence was taken up for discussion in the Lok Sabha on July 20 1993 and the debate continued till July 28, 1993. The motion was thereafter put to vote. The motion was defeated with 251 members voting in favour of the motion, while 265 voting against it. On February 28, 1996, on Shri Ravindra Kumar of Rashtriya Mukti Morcha filed a complaint dated February 1, 1996 with the Central Bureau of Investigation [for short 'CBI'] wherein it was alleged that in July 1993 a criminal conspiracy was hatched by A-1, Satish Sharma [hereinafter referred to as 'A-2], Aj