D. H.Waghela, J. : These petitions under Sec. 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (`the Cr.P.C.' for short) between the same set of parties are argued and heard together on common issues involved and are disposed of by this judgment. The few relevant facts and documents to be found in the first Misc. Criminal Application No. 3934 of 1999 are admittedly representative of all the cases, and therefore, the arguments were based on them. The common prayers of the petitioners are aimed at quashing of the complaints or setting aside the process issued, in the consequent criminal cases, by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bharuch in respect of the alleged offence punishable under the provisions of Sec. 138 read with Sec. 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (`the Act' for brief). The main controversy regarding territorial jurisdiction of the Court has already travelled through two judicial proceedings in the form of an application made in the trial Court for transferring the case to the Court of competent jurisdiction and the groups of criminal revision applications preferred from the adverse order in the aforesaid earlier proceedings. Thus, this is practicall