JUDGMENT :

P.N. Prakash, J.

These three criminal revisions have been preferred challenging the legality and validity of the common judgment and order dated 22.06.2017 passed in Crl.A. Nos.110 of 2015, 225 of 2016 and 106 of 2015 respectively on the file of the IV Additional Sessions Court, Chennai, confirming the judgment and order dated 07.05.2015 passed in C.C. No.11127 of 2006 on the file of the Fast Track Court No. IV, Chennai.

2. Since the challenge in these criminal revisions is to the common judgment and order as aforesaid, these criminal revisions are considered and decided by this common order.

3. For better appreciation of the facts leading to the institution of the case at hand, it may be necessary to refer to the dramatis personae by their name and also set out the concatenation of events chronologically.

4. Mukanchand Bothra, the first respondent-since deceased (for brevity "Mukanchand") is a financier and R.Anbarasu (A2) is a prominent politician (as per his statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C.) and Founder-Chairman of the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Educational Charitable