JUDGMENT :

SANDEEP N. BHATT, J.

1. All these applications are filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘the Code’ for short) for quashing and setting aside the complaints being Criminal Case Nos. 33269, 33268, 33253, 33262, 33263, 33264, 33265, 33252, 33266, 33267, 35578, 35579, 33271 and 33270 of 2013 respectively filed under the provisions of the Negotiable Instruments Act (‘NI Act’ for short).

2. As the common question of facts and law are involved in all these applications, at the request of learned advocates for the parties, they are heard together and disposed of by this common oral judgment.

3. Rule returnable forthwith. Learned APP waives service of notice of rule for respondent no. 1-state and learned advocate Ms. Minoo Shah waives service of notice of rule for respondent no. 2.

4. For the sake of convenience, the facts of Criminal Miscellaneous Application No. 17940 of 2018 are considered, which are as under:

4.1. A complaint came to be filed by the complainant stating that the complainant is a limited company registered under the Companies Act; that the applicants and one another are directors of one Superfine Syntex Ltd. - a limited company registered