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The aforesaid are only illustrations and not exhaustive of all conditions which may warrant preliminary inquiry.
120.7 While ensuring and protecting the rights of the accused and the complainant, a preliminary inquiry should be made time-bound and in any case it should not exceed 7 days. The fact of such delay and the causes of it must be reflected in the general dairy entry."

24. From the above decision, it is clear that when the allegation relate to the commission of offence under section 13(1)(e) of the P.C. Act, it was incumbent on the Special Court to insist for a preliminary enquiry and it was equally incumbent upon respondent No.2 to ensure that there were prima facie material for registration of the case under section 13(1)(e) of the P.C. Act and to proceed with the investigation thereon. Requirement of conducting a preliminary enquiry has been insisted upon not only as a requirement under the provisions of the Act, but by the various precedents laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India which are again reiterated in the case of STATE OF HARYANA & Others vs. BHAJAN LAL & Others reported in 1992 Supp (1) SCC 335, wherein the Hon'ble Supreme Court has clearly held that before a public servant is publicly charged with acts of dishonesty and corruption and FIR is lodged against him, there should be some suitable preliminary enquiry into the allegations by a responsible officer. In paragraph 76 of the said judgment, it is held as under:-