Mr. Mehinder Singh Sullar, J.: - As illogical as it may seem, but strictly and truly speaking, the tendency and frequency of such police personnel, who have been charged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (for brevity “the CBI”) for the commission of heinous offences of criminal conspiracy, illegal detention, kidnapping and murders etc., to delay the disposal of criminal cases, on one pretext or the other, for the reasons best known to them, have been tremendously increasing day by day. The instant matters originated from two decade’s old occurrences, are the burning example of such like cases. At the same time, the judicial system also cannot escape its liability in this respect, for variety of reasons, perhaps mainly on account of paucity of infrastructural capability and capacity. God knows who is to be blamed for it.

2. Be that as it may, since the identical questions of law and facts are involved, so, I propose to decide all the above indicated petitions, by virtue of this common judgment, in order to avoid the repetition. However, the relevant facts and material, which need a necessary mention for the limited purpose of deciding the core controversy, involved in