ORDER :

These petitions are filed under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C seeking to quash all further proceedings in C.C.No.221/2016 pending on the files of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Kasargod.

2. The petitioner in Crl.M.C.No.7092 of 2016 is the 1st accused, those in Crl.M.C.No.7373 of 2016 are the accused Nos.2 to 5 and the petitioner in Crl.M.C.No.2432 of 2015 is the 6th accused in the aforesaid case. They have been hauled up to answer a charge under Sections 465, 468, 471, 482 r/w. Section 34 of the IPC.

3. The party respondent herein filed a complaint before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-I, Kasaragod, in the year 2014, wherein it is alleged as follows:

The 2nd respondent is the Managing Trustee of Shree Varadaraja Venkataramana Temple at Kasaragod, an ancient temple of the ‘Gouda Saraswatha Brahmin’ community. It is alleged that Shrimad Sudheendra Thirtha Swamiji is the ‘Madathipathi’ of Shri Kashi Math Samsthan at Varanasi. It is the “Dharma Peeth” of the Gouda Saraswatha Brahmin community. In the year 1989, the 1st accused, who was then known as Sivananda Pai, accepted Sanyasa Deeksha and he came to be known as Raghavendra Thirtha. As part of a prolonged grooming p