currency notes for applying powder and a case FIR No.12 dated 16.03.1999 was registered against accused Rajinder Singh, JE, PSEB under Sections 7, 13(2), 88 P.C. Act. A raid was conducted by the Vigilance Bureau and the accused Rajinder Singh was arrested red handed. It was averred that supplementary statement of the defendant-appellant was also recorded after the raid. After conducting investigations, challan was presented against Rajinder Singh, JE in the Court of Special Judge, Patiala in which case the defendant-appellant appeared as PW11. However, the defendant-appellant resiled from his earlier statements recorded by the Vigilance Bureau and finally accused Rajinder Singh, JE was acquitted. It was further averred that the defendant-appellant had received a reward of Rs.25,000/- under a scheme of awarding the complainants in bribe cases and that the defendantappellant, after pocketing Rs.25000/- from the State Government, had resiled from his original statements while deposing in the Court as PW11. The defendant-appellant had played a fraud upon the State Government and cheated the State Government and caused loss to the Government Exchequer of Rs.25,000/- for which FIR No.13 dated 03.02.2003 under Section 420 IPC was registered against him and he was convicted by the Court. Thus, the suit for recovery along with interest. In his written statement the defendantappellant raised preliminary objections regarding maintainability, the suit being false, frivolous and vexatious, not coming to Court with clean hands, locus standi, cause of action, concealment, etc. It was the stand taken that the plaintiff-respondent had no right, title or authority to file the suit and there was no authorization on the file by the State of Punjab to file the suit. It was
