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2024 (5) TMI 1251

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..... h Bishnoi, D.A.G., Haryana ORDER ANOOP CHITKARA , J. FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections 06 09.02.2024 ACB Karnal, District Anti Corruption Bureau, Haryana 120-B, 384 IPC, 7, 7-A of PC (Section 13(1) (b) r/w 13(2) of PC Act added later on) 1. The petitioner, incarcerated in the FIR captioned above, has come up before this Court under Section 439 CrPC. 2. Vide order dated 26.04.2024, this Court had granted interim bail to the petitioner which is continuing till date. 3. Counsel for the petitioner submits the petitioner has complied with condition no.14 of order dated 26.04.2024 and has handed over two sets of affidavits to the State counsel who has handed over the same to the Investigator. 4. State counsel does not refute the stand of coun .....

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..... he should talk to Pankaj Khurana CA, Panipat (co-accused) and they telephonically called Pankaj Khurana CA (Pvt.) (co-accused) at the spot. Pankaj Khurana, CA after talking to Premraj Meena, Nikhil Bansal and other officers, told the complainant that Premraj Meena and other officers were demanding bribe amount of Rs. 12,00,000/- in lieu of closing the matter by imposing the penalty of Rs. 11,00,000/- only, and threatened, if bribe amount not paid, then he will have to pay Rs. 7,00,000/- or even one crore. Premraj Meena and other officers in collusion with Pankaj Khurana (co-accused) threatened and pressurized complainant and obtained bribe amount of Rs. 3,00,000/- on 06-02-2024 and as GST. adre on the same day, got deposited Rs. 5.00.000/- .....

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..... Shadow witness was also instructed to see and hear the conversation between complainant and accused and was further directed to give the appointed signal to the raiding team. List of Currency notes, memo of handing over the notes and the search memo ete. were prepared. Thereafier, on dated 09-02-24 the complainant and shadow witness proceeded to meet Pankaj Khurana, CA and after some time the complainant, the shadow witness acted accordingly and thereafter Pankaj Khurana (co-accused) was apprehended near Mittal Mega Road, Panipat. Upon asking him to produce the bribe money then co-accused Pankaj Khurana CA (private person) got recovered the bribe amount/tainted money of Rs. 7,00,000/- from his bag on spot and Pankaj Khurana was arrested in .....

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..... tigation on 12-02-2024, the investigating officer got recorded the statements u/s 164 Cr.P.C. of complainant Dinesh before Ld. JMIC, Panipat, who fully corroborated the prosecution version. That on 13-02-2024, complainant Dinesh produced the audio recording device, before the investigating officer, wherein demand of bribe/conversation was recorded among the complainant Dinesh and accused persons viz Pankaj Khurana (co-accused) and Premraj Meena (petitioner-accused), upon which the investigating officer with the help of ASI Surender Kumar ACB, Sub Unit Panipat, prepared three audio CD's and its transcript in Hindi and after converting the audio CD's into a separate sealed parcels, the audio CD's, its transcripts (Annexure R-1) an .....

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..... they were sent to FSL, Madhuban for comparison on 21- 03-2024 and the same is awaiting for results. 8. That on 30-03-2024, the challan report u / s 173 Cr.P.C against petitioner-accused Premraj Meena and co-accused Pankaj Khurana has been presented before the Court of Ld. Special Judge, Panipat. Furthermore the prosecution sanction dated 24-04-2024 against Premraj Meena (petitioner-accused) has been obtained from the competent authority on 29-04-2024. However, the investigation in the present case is still going on and after obtaining the FSL reports and after concluding the investigation of the present case, the final challan report u/s 173 (8) Cr.P.C will be submitted in the Special Court in Panipat at the earliest. 9. That on 14-04-2024 .....

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