JUDGMENT :

The petitioners in all these four petitions are accused in FIR No. 12/2015 dated 21.02.2015 registered under Sections 5(1)(d) read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, Svt. 2006 [‘the Act’] and 120-B RPC with the Police Station, Vigilance Organization, Kashmir [‘VOK’]. Petitioner Hammid Ahmad Wani is accused in FIR No. 11/2015 also. Although the petitioners have been ascribed different role in the commission of alleged offences, yet, they are aggrieved of registration of FIRs in question against them almost on identical grounds. It is because of this reason, all the petitions, though heard on different occasions, have been taken up for disposal together by this common judgment.

2. CRM(M) No. 187/2021 has been filed by Hammid Ahmad Wani, who, at the relevant time, was ex-officio Member Secretary of Building Operation Control Authority [‘BOCA’] and had played important role in grant of building permission in favour of beneficiaries i.e. Waseem Mushtaq and others. He has filed another petition i.e. CRM(M) 186/2021 wherein he has challenged FIR 11/2015 dated 20.02.2015 registered with Police Station, VOK. CRM(M) 192/2021 has been filed by one Feroz Ahmad Mir,