1. The other Criminal Original Petitions are filed for the reliefs as stated therein. The Petitioners, who are arrayed as A1 to A3 and A5 to A10 in all these Criminal Original Petitions seek to quash the complaint in CC.NO.429/2006 on the file of the District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate, Ambattur.

2. The Respondent/complainant has filed the private complaint against the Petitioners/A1 to A3 and A5 to A10 and one C.R.Rao, Director of M/s.Rane Brake Linings Limited, who is arrayed as A4, under Section 500 of IPC. The Respondent was working as an Operator in M/s. Rane Brake Linings Limited (herein after referred to as the Company) and its Factory is situated at No.30, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai58 and the said Company manufactures brake linings for all automobiles and trucks, brake blocks for railways and clutch facings. For the purpose of said manufacture, the Company has employed 318 permanent workers and all of them said to have been represented by a Union called M/s. Rane Brake Linings Employees Union (herein after referred to as the Union), in which the Respondent is said to be the elected General Secretary from the year 1989.

3. It appears from the complaint t