The Petitioners in these three Revision Petitions suffered an Arbitration Award in A.R.C. No. 310/1989-90 dated 20.1.1995, under Section 90 of The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Societies Act, 1983. The Petitioners filed Statutory Appeals in Cooperative Tribunal Appeal Nos. 129, 140 and 141 of 1995 under Section 152(1)(a) of the Act, before the Principal District Judge, Coimbatore (Special Tribunal for Cooperative Cases). The Appeals were dismissed by the Tribunal, by an order dated 31.1.2008 passed in common along with several such Appeals, Aggrieved by the common order of dismissal of their Statutory Appeals, by the Tribunal, the Petitioners have come up with the present Civil Revision Petitions.

2. I have heard Mr. V. Raghavachari and Mr. G. Nagarajan, learned counsel appearing for the Petitioners in these Revision Petitions and Mr. P. Anbarasan, learned counsel appearing for the Second Respondent-Cooperative Society.

3. The Petitioners in these Revision Petitions were Cooperative Sub-Registrars. They worked in the Coimbatore District Consumer Cooperative Wholesale Stores Ltd., during the period from 1984 to 1989. There were certain allegations of misappropriation of the funds