JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., seeking to call for the records in S.T.C.No.2 of 2022 on the file of the Learned Judicial Magistrate, FTC-II, Erode and to quash the same.

Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., seeking to call for the records in S.T.C.No.2 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, FTC-II, Erode and to quash the same.)

Common Order

1. The petitioners, who are arrayed as A1 to A3, have filed the above criminal original petitions seeking to quash the proceedings in S.T.C.No.2 of 2022, on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, FTC-II, Erode, for the offence punishable under Sections 138, 141 and 142 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as "the N.I. Act").

2. Since the issues involved in both the criminal original petitions are one and the same and between the same parties, both the Criminal Original Petitions are heard together and disposed of by means of this Common Order.

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

(i) The petitioners in Crl.O.P.No.14301 of 2022 are the accused 1 and 2 and the petition