1. All these applications can be conveniently disposed of by this common order, as the applicants in all these applications are the same and though the respondent No.2 in these applications are different, the facts are identical and the questions, needing determination are also the same.

2. The applicants, in all these applications, are the office bearers and officers of the Savada Merchant Co-operative Credit Society Ltd., Savada, Tq. Raver, Dist. Jalgaon (hereinafter referred to as the 'said society'). On separate complaints against them, filed by different persons, alleging commission of offences punishable under Section 409 of I.P.C. r.w. section 34 of I.P.C., the J.M.F.C., Amalner, has issued process against the applicants, in all these cases, requiring them to answer to the charge of an offence punishable under Section 409 of I.P.C. r.w. section 34 of I.P.C.

3. The substance of all these complaints is as follows. That, the respective complaints were induced by the applicants to invest the monies in the said society on the assurance that they would be given good interest and other facilities. The complainants, in separate incidents, were assured that after the peri