JUDGMENT :

B.P. ROUTRAY, J.

All the petitioners in these Criminal Revisions have challenged the order dated 19.07.2019 passed by the learned Special Judge (Vigilance), Keonjhar in VGR Case No. 19 of 2011 and have further prayed to discharge them from the offences under Sections 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act,1968, Sections 379/120-B of the Indian Penal Code, Sections 21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act, 1957 (hereinafter in short called “MMDR Act”), Section 3-A of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 and Section 58 of the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988.

2. Since all these Revision Petitions are arising out of the very same impugned order dated 19.07.2019 passed in VGR Case No. 19 of 2011 by the learned Special Judge (Vigilance), Keonjhar, they are heard together analogously and disposed of by this common order.

3. The case in nutshell is that a mining lease was granted in favour of Late Banshidhar Patnaik, the father of the accused-petitioner in CRLREV No.534/2019 Jitendranath Patnaik over an area of Ac