JUDGMENT :

SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD, J.

1. The instant petitions, filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, before this Court are for quashing of the second supplementary charge-sheets dated 16.08.2019 arising out of FIR No. 354/2017 dated 06.08.2017 registered at Police Station Lajpat Nagar for an offence under Section 304 IPC, and to set aside the order dated 03.03.2020 whereby the Ld. Additional Sessions Judge in Sessions Case No. 406/2017, summoned the Petitioners in criminal proceedings. The Petitioners in Crl. M.C. 934/2021 and CRL. M.C. 935/2021 were working as Assistant Engineer and Executive Engineer, respectively, with the Delhi Jal Board.

2. Shorn of details, the facts leading to instant petitions are that on 06.08.2017, four labourers were deputed by one Dinesh, a contractor employed with a private cleaning agency, for the task of cleaning 25 manhole covers of the Delhi Jal Board sewer line located opposite Sant Kanwar Mandir, Jal Vihar Road. It is stated that three out of four labourers died of asphyxiation due to inhaling poisonous gases inside one of the manhole covers. The surviving labourer, one Rakesh, stated that the contractor, Dinesh Kumar, had deputed