JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petitions have been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to call for the records in C.C.Nos.533, 530 and 532 of 2020 and 535 of 2021 pending on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Puducherry and quash the same.)

Common Order

1. The issues involved in all these criminal original petitions are one and the same and hence they are heard together and disposed of by means of this common order.

2. The petitioners who are arrayed as A9, A7, A8 and A11, have filed the above criminal original petitions seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.Nos.533, 530 and 532 of 2020 and 535 of 2021, respectively pending on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Puducherry, for the offence punishable under Section 420 I.P.C.

3. The brief facts leading to filing of these quash petitions, are as follows:

(i) The petitioners are representing various medical colleges in the Union Territory of Puducherry. Based on source information that, the officials of Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) of Government of Puducherry and Management of seven medical colleges, both self financing as well as deemed to be universities have deliberately denied ad