HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER CRIMINAL PETITION No.5770 OF 2019

ORDER:

1. This Criminal Petition is filed to quash the order in Crl.M.P.No.579 of 2018 in C.C.No.18 of 2014, dated 31.10.2018 on the file of Special Judge under the Prevention of Corruption Act for the Speedy trial of Cases of Embezzlement of Scholarship Amounts in Social Welfare Department etc., at Criminal Courts Complex, Nampally.

2. Learned Public Prosecutor for ACB filed Crl.M.P.No.579 of 2018, seeking withdrawal of the prosecution on the ground that the Director General, Anti Corruption, Hyderabad addressed letter dated 19.02.2018 to the Public Prosecutor, directing implementation of the Government’s Order issued vide Rc.No.96/RCA-CIU-2011, to withdraw the prosecution against the petitioner, as per Government Memo No.4650/Vig.2-2011, dated 17.05.2014, from the Agriculture & Co-operation (Vig.III)

Department.

3. The petitioner/accused officer was charge sheeted for the offence under Section 13(1)(e) r/w Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short ‘the Act’). The allegation is that the ACB authorities conducted searches on 26.04.2011 at different places and seized incriminating documents. Crime