In this Departments Memo. cited, instructions were issued, inter alia, that the Anti-Corruption Bureau can seek production of records from a Head of Department I Office only when the records are required in connection with a regular enquiry. After careful reconsideration of the issue, it has been decided that the Officers of the Anti-Corruption Bureau may be permitted to pursue the records during the course of preliminary enquiries also. Accordingly, it is further clarified that when production of records from a Head of Department / Office is sought, the Anti-Corruption Bureau should:
a) state the particulars of
records which are required in connection with a preliminary enquiry/regular
enquiry, indicating the reasons for perusal for each of such records;
b) state that it is not a
Suo Motu enquiry; and
c) make the requisition from an Officer not below the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Bureau.
2. The Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Heads of Departments are requested to bring these instructions to the notice of the officers under their control for their information and guidance.
3. The Director, Anti-Corruption
Bureau, is also informed that all the preliminary enquiries should be completed
within three months.
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