IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH

AT JABALPUR

BEFORE

HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIVEK KUMAR SINGH

&

HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR NIRANKARI

ON THE 15^th OF JANUARY, 2026

MISCELLANEOUS CRIMINAL CASE NO.5062 of 2024

PRADEEP CHAUDHARY

Versus

THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH, THROUGH SPECIAL POLICE

ESTABLISHMENT, LOKAYUKTA OFFICE, BHOPAL

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Appearance :

Ms. Shobha Menon – Senior Advocate with Shri Rahul Choubey for the

petitioner.

Shri Abhinav Shrivastava – Advocate for the respondent No.1/S.P.E.

Lokayukta.

Shri Shivendra Pandey – Advocate for the respondent

No.4/Complainant.

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Reserved on : 17/12/2025 Pronounced on : 15/01/2026

O R D E R

By way of this petition, under Section 482 of Code of Criminal

Procedure (in short, ‘CrPC’), the petitioner is seeking quashment of the charge-sheet No.81/2022 dated 10.09.2022 whereby he has been

implicated in criminal proceeding under Section 13(1)(e) and 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for brevity, ‘PC Act’) read with Section 120-B of the Indian Penal