Mangesh S. Patil, J.

Rule.

The Rule is made returnable forthwith.

With the consent of both the sides the matter is heard finally.

2. In all these applications filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (hereinafter referred to as 'the Cr.P.C.') the respective applicants are praying for quashing the order passed by the learned 6th Judicial Magistrate First Class, Nanded in Miscellaneous Criminal Application No.367 of 2013 filed by the present Respondent No.2 directing an inquiry to be made in pursuance of the order passed under Section 156(3) of the Cr.P.C. They are also seeking to quash and set aside the FIR bearing Crime No.157 of 2013 for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 166 and 167 read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code registered in pursuance of such order passed by the learned Magistrate. Since by virtue of the same complaint and the same order the impugned FIR has been registered against each of these applicants, with a view to avoid repetition, as common questions of law and fact arise in all these applications we propose to decide them by this common judgment and order.

3. Shorn of unnecessary details the facts leadings to