1. In view of the commonness of the issues involved in these Revision Petitions, they are taken up for joint consideration and disposal. The petitioner in Crl.R.P.No.137 of 2015 is the first accused in C.C.No.562 of 2005 on the files of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram. The petitioners in Crl.R.P.Nos.264 & 265 of 2015 are respectively the first accused in C.C.No.563 of 2005 and second accused in C.C.No.561 of 2005 on the files of the same court. They moved Crl.M.P.Nos.8867/2013, 8870/2013 and 8866/2013 in those calendar cases seeking their discharge. Those petitions were dismissed by orders dated 28.2.2014. The captioned Revision Petitions are filed challenging the order of dismissal passed in their respective petition for discharge. A bare perusal of the impugned orders would reveal that certain observations of this Court made in the orders in certain Criminal Miscellaneous Petitions moved by some of the accused in the aforesaid calendar cases, including the petitioners in Crl.R.P.Nos.137 and 264 of 2015, weighed with the court below in passing the said orders.

2. The petitioners are employees of the Aunducode Primary Agricultural Co-operative Ban