ORDER :

Criminal Revision Petition No.955/2019 has been preferred by petitioner-accused No.1, Criminal Revision Petition No.959/2019 has been preferred by petitioner-accused No.5, Criminal Revision Petition No.969/2019 has been preferred by petitioner-accused No.4 being aggrieved by the order passed on application filed under Section 245 of Cr.P.C. for discharge by LXXXI Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru, in Special Criminal Case No.759/2018 dated 25.6.2019.

2. I have heard the learned Senior Counsel Sri. B.V. Acharya for Sri Aravind V. Chavan in Criminal Revision Petition No.955/2019, Sri. A. Shankar, learned Senior Counsel for Sri. Shayam Sundar M.S. in Criminal Revision Petition No.959/2019, and Sri. Shashi Kiran Shetty for Smt. Latha S. Shetty in Criminal Revision Petition No.969/2019 and Sri. G. Rajagopalan, Additional Solicitor General, along with Sri. Jeevan J. Neeralgi, Senior Standing Counsel for respondent.

3. The factual matrix of the case of the prosecution is that Deputy Director of Income Tax Investigation, Bengaluru, lodged a complaint against the accused persons for having committed an offence punishable under Sections 276 (C)(1), 277, 278 of the Inco