ORDER :

Criminal Petition No.2470/2020, Criminal Petition No.2473/2020 and Criminal Petition No.2485/2020, are filed by the same accused for the same offences of different crimes in Crime Nos.15/2020, 16/2020 and 17/2020, on the file of 23rd Additional City Civil & Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City. Hence, all the petitions are taken up together for common disposal.

2. The factual matrix of the case in Crl.P.No.2470/2020 is that the petitioner was working as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Central Crime Branch (‘CCB’), Bengaluru City, and he was a supervisory officer of the Economic Offences Wing in the CCB. That on 30.03.2020, a complaint came to be filed and registered by the Banaswadi Police Station as against one Surush and others for an offence punishable under Section 420 of IPC, making the allegation that manufacturing of masks in the Lab of the accused, situated in Banaswadi and the said masks containing the fake seals and certification to provide standardization for the masks manufactured by him. The said crime, which is numbered as Crime No.164/2020 and the same was transferred to CCB, by the Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City, and one Shri Guruprasad, Police Inspec