CUTTACK, India, May 1 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on March 31:

1. Since common questions of fact and law are involved in the abovementioned matters, the same were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment. However, this Court finds it appropriate to treat CRLMC No.4919 of 2025 as the leading case for the purpose of adjudication.

2. The Petitioner, in the present petition, challenges the initiation and continuance of the proceedings pending against him before the learned Special CJM (Vigilance), Bhubaneswar, arising out of VGR No. 70 of 2016. I. FACTUAL MATRIX OF THE CASE:

3. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

i. On 18.06.2016, an FIR was lodged before the S.P., Vigilance Cell, Cuttack, pursuant to which a Vigilance P.S. Case was registered and subsequently numbered as VGR Case No. 70 of 2016, now pending before the learned Special CJM (Vigilance), Bhubaneswar.

ii. In the course of investigation, the Petitioner and his wife came to be implicated in connection with the said case on allegations of submission of a false affidavit and suppression of material facts in relation to allotment of a plot under the Odisha State Housing Board Scheme.

iii. Upon completion of investigation, the Investigating Officer submitted charge-sheet on 14.11.2023 before the learned Special CJM (Vigilance), Bhubaneswar in VGR Case No. 70 of 2016, arraigning the Petitioner and his wife as accused for the alleged commission of offences under Sections 193, 200 and 420 read with Section 34 of the IPC.

iv. The learned Court, upon receipt of the said charge-sheet, has proceeded with the matter, and the case is presently pending at the stage of consideration of charge. v. Being aggrieved by the initiation and continuance of the aforesaid criminal proceeding, the Petitioner has approached this Court by filing the present CRLMC.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=I1mmm2bl4r4EREhYK63KvyI05ACF53eWSCduKV18NlcEUvgqCQj8bEkRJrByLK80&caseno=CRLMC/386/2026&cCode=1&cino=ODHC010007742026&state_code=11&appFlag=)

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