General Manager (Credit) and the Executive Director. A perusal of the Memorandum placed before the respondent for sanction showed that as many as 14 Public Sector Banks were lending to the Company apart from an international private sector bank. The respondent's role was confined to signing the memorandum prepared by the senior officers and participating in the Management Committee meeting, which approved the proposal. No material is placed on record to Criminal Appeal No. 2891 of 2023 Page 10 of 11show that any of the accused other than bank officials ever met the respondent before the sanction of the proposal by the Management Committee. Only because the entire proposal was processed and cleared within a short span of time, no offence is made out against the respondent. Taking the material in the charge sheet as it is, complicity of the respondent is not made out. 16. Therefore, we see no scope to interfere with the impugned order. While we say so, we must observe here that we have