JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Shri Hari Bans Singh, learned counsel for the applicants and Shri Vikas Goswami, learned Additional Government Advocate (‘A.G.A.’) appearing for the State.

2. By the instant petitions filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (‘Cr.P.C.’) applicants seek quashing of the entire proceedings of S.S.T. No. 34 of 2010 (State vs. Shiv Kumar Chandal and others) under Sections 467, 468, 471, 420, 409, 120B IPC, and 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, pending in the court of Special Judge/Sessions Judge, Firozabad.

3. All the applications, herein, are being heard together on consent. The applicants are chargesheeted in the same case crime number. For the sake of convenience the facts arising in Ratan Kumar Saraswat[first applicant] (36633/2013) is being referred to.

4. This Court had granted protection to the applicants from coercive measures. It is informed by the learned counsel for the applicants that the trial since then has not proceeded.

5. The facts, briefly stated, is that applicants were employees in the office of Soil Conservation Firozabad. The first applicant retired from the post of Accountant, on 31 December 2005. NABARD launched a