( 1 ) THE judgment in this Criminal Appeal shall also govern the disposal of Criminal Appeals 53/85, 94/85, and 925/85. This appeal as also Appeals 53/85 and 94/85 are by convicted accused persons, numbering five. Appeal No. 925/85 is by the State against acquittal of two other accused persons.

( 2 ) BETWEEN October, 196 7/07/1968 i. e. during an interval of about 10 months, pay bills of teachers, of the total amount of Rs. 27,555/- of the establishment of' District Education Officer Raipur, marked Exs. P-6 to P-13, were encashed from Raipur Treasury. The amount of' those bills was obtained for the purpose of disbursement by Shankerlal Vishwakarma, who was at the relevant time, Assistant District Inspector of Schools, working in the office of District Education Officer, Raipur. Those pay bills were written out by Nand Kumar, a teacher attached to that office. One Premchand Bagh was a Section Clerk in that office who had checked those pay bills. Another official named Ramesh Shanker was also a Clerk who had written note-sheets with respect to those pay bills. Dattatreya Deshpandey was an Accountant in that office who had initialled and forwarded those bills along wi