Raj Mohan Singh, J.

Vide this common order CRM-M Nos. 30878, 30999 and 35829 of 2015 are being decided as these petitions have arisen out of similar controversy.

2. Petitioners have filed the present petitions under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for quashing criminal complaint No. 105 dated 27.04.2015 under Sections 500, 501, 502, 120-B IPC and order dated 27.07.2015 vide which the petitioners have been summoned to appear as an accused in the aforesaid case.

3. Since common question of law and facts are involved in these petitions, therefore, facts are being taken from CRM-M No. 30878 of 2015.

4. Brief facts are that the respondent filed a complaint under Section 190 Cr.P.C., 1973 for the offence under Section 499 IPC read with Section 500, 501, 502, 120-B IPC with the allegations that news item dated 25.11.2014 captioned as "All Powerful Minister Majithia and his three NRI Musketeers", news item dated 11.03.2015 captioned as "Majithia collected money from three N.R.Is, says ED Probe" and news item captioned as "Majithia in the Soup?" got published by the accused respondents in the daily newspaper 'The Tribune' were defamatory and were published by the a