at the appropriate stage. The appellants had approached the High Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“CrPC” for short) praying for quashing of the criminal proceedings in T.R. No. 28 of 2002 pending in the Court of Special Judge (CBI) Bhubaneswar (“trial Court” for short). 3. Shorn of details, the case of the prosecution is as given below. 3.1 On 14th October 2000, on the basis of information received from a reliable source, the Inspector of Police CBI/SPE Bhubaneswar registered a regular case under Section 154 of CrPC being Crime No. RCBHU 2000A0021 (“FIR” for short) against five persons namely, Ajay Kumar Behera (Accused No. 1), Surjit Sen (Accused No. 2), Kaushik Nath Ojha (Accused No.3), Tarini Sen (Accused No. 4), Shaileshree Sen (Accused No. 5) alleging commission of 2offences punishable under Sections 120-B, 420, 468 and 471 of Indian Penal Code 1860 (“IPC” for short) & Sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 (“PC