( 1 ) THE petitioners have not knocked the door of this Court under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter called the Code) praying for quashing of criminal proceeding being G. R. Case No. 1275 of 1994 arising out of Jalpaiguri Kotwali P. S Case No. 370 dated 11. 10. 94 under section 420 of the indian Penal Code (in short IPC) now pending in the Court of the learned sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (in short SDJM) - now redesignated as ACJM and also the chargesheet filed in the said G. R. Case in CRR No. 1142 of 1996 and also for quashing of complaint case being C. R. No. 317 of 1994 now pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Court, Jalpaiguri under sections 138 and 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (hereinafter referred to as NI act) through revisional application being CRR No. 2753/96. As both the criminal proceedings arose out of same facts and parties are same as well as points of law involved are same in these two revisional applications, I intend to dispose of both the criminal revisional applications by this common judgment and order.

( 2 ) BEFORE entering into the merit of the case and rival contention of the parties,