1. All these petitions are under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 and the grounds urged by the respective petitioners being common and the contentions put forward by the learned Counsel for the parties also being common to these petitions, these petitions are disposed of by this common order.

2. At the outset, it has to be mentioned that, this Court had granted interim stay of the proceedings and I.A. to vacate stay is also filed by the respondent-Lokayukta in all these petitions and therefore this Court heard learned Counsel Sri M.S. Bhagwat for the petitioners and Smt. T.M. Gayathri for the respondent-Lokayukta on the merits of these petitions.

3. The facts common to all these petitions are that, cases were registered against the respective petitioners herein under Section 154 of Cr.P.C. by the Lokayukta Police in respect of the offence under Sections 8 and 13(1) (d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (‘the Act’ for short). FIRs came to be registered in all but one case on the basis of the panchanama drawn on 18-5-2012. Insofar as Cri.P.No.2142 of 2012 is concerned, the FIR was registered on 25-2-2012 based on the mahazar dra