JUDGMENT

1. These petitions have been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short, `Cr.P.C.'), challenging the Order dated 18.02.2022 passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate-03 (NI Act), New Delhi District, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the `Trial Court') in the complaints filed by the petitioner herein under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as the `NI Act'), being Complaint Case no.54783/2016 (in CRL M.C. 1171/2022) and Complaint Case no.53009/2016 (in CRL M.C. 1172/2022), both titled Rahul Darbari v. Arun Kumar Khobragade & Ors., dismissing the application filed by the petitioner/complainant under Section 311 of the Cr.P.C. for recalling himself as a witness.

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2. The above complaints were filed by the petitioner on 26.09.2015.

3. The respondents filed petitions under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C., one of them being Crl.M.C. No. 2496/2016, seeking quashing of the said complaints.

4. The petitioner herein, as a respondent in the above petition, filed his counter affidavit, and the respondents, as petitioners in those petitions, filed their rejoinders.

5. The said peti