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1. The petitioner apprehending arrest in the FIR captioned above has come up before this Court under Section 438 CrPC, 1973, seeking anticipatory bail.

2. In paragraph 14 of the bail petition, the accused declares that he has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are being taken from the reply filed by the State, which reads as follows:

"2. That the present case (FIR No. 17 Dated 08.12.2023 under sections 420, 465, 466, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, later on added sections 409, 467 IPC and sections 7, 7-A, 8, 13(1)A Read With 13(2) of the P.C. Act 1988, Police Station Vigilance Bureau, E.O.Wing, Ludhiana. Annexure P-1) has been registered against PKS Sharma Bhardwaj Ex-Registrar Punjab Pharmacy Council, Dr. Tejbir Singh Ex-Registrar Punjab Pharmacy Council and Ashok Kumar Accountant now Superintendent Punjab Pharmacy Council Medical Education Bhawan Sec.69, SAS Nagar as per the vigilance inquiry no. 04 dated 26.08.2019 conducted by Vigilance Bureau, EOW S.A.S Nagar on the basis of complaint made by Swaranjit Singh, Convener Para Medical and Health Employees Front, Punjab. During enquiry, it has transpired that if any student wants to take admission in 1 of 5 Neutral Citation No:=2024:PHHC:113976 another Education Board, then he/she is required to submit his migration certificate issued by his previous Education Board. It is the duty of the Registrar, Punjab State Pharmacy Council to verify certificates of the students taking admission in courses of Diploma in Pharmacy, B-Pharma, M-Pharma and to register them for different works. If any student wants to do Pharmacist course, then he has to pass 10+2 class in medical or non-medical stream. There are 105 Pharmacy Colleges functioning in the State of Punjab. At the time of counseling, all the seats in government colleges used to be filled whereas the seats in private colleges remained vacant and as per the directions of the government, the private colleges used to fill these seats at their own level. In order to fill these seats, private colleges used to get 10+2 medical/non-medical stream certificates of students from the outer states without any examination despite the fact that these courses are regular courses, which have to be passed by attending regular classes. Thereafter, the Registrar of Punjab Pharmacy Council and other officials issued registration numbers to the students without verifying their 10+2 certificates and in lieu there of, they obtained huge amounts as illegal gratification.