JUDGMENT

(Common Prayer: Criminal Appeals are filed under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, against the Judgment of the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, Dharmapuri in C.A.No.18 of 2017, C.A.No.19 pf 2017, and C.A.No.17 of 2017, dated 12.02.2020 respectively, in reversing the well-considered Judgment of the learned Magistrate FTC, Dharmapuri in STC No.31 of 2014, STC.No.14 of 2014, and STC.No.22 of 2015, dated 26.04.2017, respectively, in any event is illegal, incompetent, without jurisdiction and liable to set aside in-limina.)

Common Judgment

1. These three appeals arise out of acquittal for the alleged offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, between the same parties, Judgments being delivered simultaneously, on the same date, and for the same reasons, are taken up together and disposed of by this common Judgment.

2. The case of the complainant is that the complainant is a person doing real estate and also lending monies for interest and is also a contractor. The accused is also a person who is a PWD contractor and also doing real estate business purchasing land and promoting them as residential plots and selling them. Therefore, the ac