ORDER :

P.N. Prakash, J.

1. Though these criminal revisions have been preferred by A.1 to A.9 calling into question, the legality and validity of the dismissal of their discharge applications by the trial Court vide separate orders of even date, viz., 04.08.2020, yet, inasmuch as all the instant criminal revisions emanate from the same FIR and charge sheet, they are considered and decided by this common order.

2. The facts in a nutshell leading to the institution of the present batch of revisions, are as under:

2.1 Gopinath (A.1) joined as Assistant Chief Controller of Imports and Exports in 1988 and retired as Joint Director General of Foreign Trade on 30.07.2015. On source information that he had amassed wealth disproportionate to his known source of income during his tenure, the CBI registered an FIR in Cr. No. 36 of 2014 on 22.08.2014, a year before his retirement.

2.2 After the FIR was registered for the offences under Section 120-B IPC and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for brevity "the PC Act") for having acquired assets di