JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. N.K. Pasari, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in all the cases and Mr. Tarun Kumar, Mr. Sunil Kumar Dubey and Mr. S.K. Srivastava, learned A.P.Ps. in respective cases for the State.

2. In all these three petitions, common questions of fact and law are involved that’s why all these Cr.M.Ps. are being heard together with the consent of the parties.

3. In Cr.M.P. No. 161 of 2013, the challenge is made for quashing of the entire criminal proceedings in connection with G.O. Case No. 12 of 2013 registered on 12.01.2013 by the Forest Area Officer, Chandil, for the alleged offence under Sections 33, 63 and 52 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Seraikella.

4. In Cr.M.P. No. 158 of 2013, the prayer is made for quashing of the entire criminal proceedings in connection with G.O. Case No. 214 of 2012 lodged on 13.12.2012 by the Forest Area Officer, Chandil, for the alleged offence under Sections 33, 41, 42 and 52 of the Indian Forest Act, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Seraikella.

5. In Cr.M.P. No. 159 of 2013, the prayer is made for quashing of the entire criminal proceedings i