BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J.(ORAL)

1. These 8 revision petitions raise common issues, although there are separate orders which are impugned in these petitions. Some of the accused are also common in these petitions. The broad facts are that by different RCs which were all registered on 01.02.1996, the petitioners were accused of having committed offences under Section 120-B read with Sections 420/468/471 IPC and Sections 3/7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. The essential features of the allegations against the petitioners are that they entered into a criminal conspiracy during the period 1992-95 with the object of cheating the Government of India by obtaining Entitlement Certificates on the basis of the false and forged documents with dishonest and fraudulent intentions of importing newsprint which was an essential commodity and thereafter to dispose of the same in the open market at a higher premium and that they actually made such imports of newsprint under the duty free scheme with an actual user's condition and disposed of the same in the open market at a higher premium. It is also pointed out by the learned counsel for the CBI that these Entitlement Certificates were