S. PARVATHA RAO, J.

( 1 ) ALL these Criminal Appeals are preferred under sub-section (1) of Section 341 of the Code f Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( the Code for short) by the accused in Calendar Cases 1 to 18 and 20 to 29 of 1997 on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Karimnagar, taken on file on complaints under Section 340 (1) (b) of the Code made by the Court of District and Sessions Judge at Karimnagar as complainant on the basis of orders made by that Court under Section 340 (1) of the Code. After the C. Cs. were taken on file by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Karimnagar, they were all (except C. C. No. 29) transferred to the Court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad and they were re-numbered. For convenience, the Calendar Cases are referred to in this judgment as numbered originally on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Karimnagar. As the questions raised in these appeals are common, they were heard together and they are now being disposed of by this common judgment.

( 2 ) THE facts in C. C. No. 29 of 1997 are some what different and they are related to what happened in O. P. No. 723 of 1985 on the file of the District C

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