1. The writ petitions are filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure praying to issue writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction and Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure., both by the petitioners accused seeking to quash the complaint dated 3.1.2018 and FIR in Crime No.5/2018 dated 8.1.2018 registered by the respondent Anti Corruption Bureau and all further proceedings in pursuance to FIR dated 8.1.2018.

Since the factual and legal aspect involved in all the above writ petitions are one and the same, they are taken together to dispose of them by this common order in order to avoid repetition of facts and law.

2. The sum and substance of the case of the petitioner accused No.1 in W.P.No.1775/2018 is that one A. Anand, S/o Arasappa has filed a complaint on 3.1.2018 before the respondent Anti Corruption Bureau alleging that there were illegalities in regularization orders passed between 1998 and 2007 by the Committee for regularization headed by the petitioner accused No.1. It is alleged that between 18.8.1998 and 2007, petitioner accuse