ORDER :

Since similar issue is involved in all these criminal petitions filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

2. Accused Nos.3 to 6 in C.C.Nos.129 of 2014, 131 of 2014 and 132 of 2014 on the file of the learned Principal Junior Civil Judge, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, filed the present Crl.P.Nos.7619 of 2015, 7621 of 2015 and 7625 of 2015 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in the said C.Cs.

3. Facts of the cases, briefly stated, are as under:

The subject C.Cs. have been registered on the complaints filed by the State under Section 11 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (for short, ‘the Act of 1955’), for contravention of Para 8(3) and 14(1) of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995 read with Section 3 of the Act of 1955, liable for punishment under Section 7(1)(a)(ii) of the Act of 1955. It was alleged in the complaints that on 20.05.2010, during inspection of M/s. Sri Lalitha Medical and General Distributors at Bhimavaram, the Drugs Inspector, Bhimavaram, found violations in respect of fixation of Maximum Retail Price of the drugs manufactured by M/s. Laborate Pharmaceuticals India