These are five petitions filed by the Petitioner/accused under S. 482 of Cr.P.C. to call for the records in C.C. No. 1067/94, 1071/94, 1070/94, 1069/94 and 1068/94 on the file of X Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Madras and quash the same

2. All these five Criminal Original Petitions were heard together, and the petitioner and respondent are one and the same in all these five petitions, and the contentions raised by them are similar, and these five petitions are being disposed of by way of a common order

3. The material allegations in these five petitions are identical and they are as follows :-

The petitioner was in need of capital for his business. The respondent offered to provide financial help and paid Rupees three lakhs on 17-5-1993. An agreement was reduced into writing by which clause 5 the petitioner has to pay Rs. 15, 000/- per month apart from 50% of the profits. Clause 6 provides that if the petitioner (sic) wants to withdraw his amount, he should give one months notice after a period of one year. Later the respondent pressed for his money back against cl. (6) of the agreement. Since the petitioner was not having ready cash, the petitioner gave 15 post dated c