JUDGMENT :

1. All these twelve connected Appeals, which have been clubbed together, are proposed to be decided through this common judgment, as all of them have similar and identical issues involved with regard to alleged forgery of CDRs by an official of the Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. Bijbehara Anantnag, used by the contractors for production of the same along-with the tender documents for allotment of various development works undertaken by the Engineering Departments.

2. The facts of the case, as are culled out from the record of all the cases are that one Ghulam Mustafa Wani General Manager of Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. Anantnag, found two forged and fictitious CDRs (Cash Deposit Receipts) bearing Nos. 30031 and 30032 pledged in favour of the Superintending Engineer PHE Khanabal, having been cleared by the said authority, when they were presented before Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. Branch Bijbehara and it was alleged that besides these two forged CDRs, 21 such like CDRs had been seized from the office of Technical Officer to Chief Engineer PWD (R&B) Kashmir, which on their verification from CC Bank Branch Bijbehara were found forged and having not been issued by the Bank