ORDER :

The petitioners in the batch of these petitions call in question the proceedings in Crime No.21/2019 registered for offences punishable under Sections 405, 406, 408, 420, 463, 464, 471, 120B and 34 of the IPC. The crime is registered pursuant to registration of a private complaint by the complainant against the petitioners. The complainant is common in these petitions. Therefore, they are taken up together and considered by this common order.

2. For the sake of convenience, the facts narrated in Crl.P.No.1627/2022 are considered.

The 2nd respondent a civil electrical contractor at Shivamogga is sanctioned and approved a contract on 24.08.2007 to lift water from Tungabhadra river under Lift Irrigation Scheme near Holaluru village, Shivamooga district to provide water to four lakes, Narayana lake, Singalli lake, Boodikere lake and Suttukere lake. After completion of the main work by RNR Engineers (P) Ltd., without following due process of law, the tender is said to have been allotted to one K.B.Kumar to complete the remainder of the work under the same project. Without completing the balance work under the aforesaid tender, it is the allegation of the complainant that K.B.Kumar