R.C. Mishra, J. -- 1. These petitioners are interlinked as they relate to the same case registered on 31.1.2008 as Crime No. 08/08 at Special Police Establishment (Loyakut), Bhopal for the offence punishable under sections 120-B and 420 of the IPC and section 13 (1) (d) read with section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (for short ‘the PC Act’) against the petitioners and one Kishorilal Vishwakarma, the then Patwari of Halka No. 25/31 at Jabalpur.

2. W.P.Nos. 5959/2008 and 2571/2011 are the petitioners, under Article 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, for issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari or mandamus or any other writ or direction for quashing of the FIR, leading to registration of the case as against Smt. Meena Mehra and Vivek Tripathi, who at the relevant point of time, were posted respectively as Tehsildar (Nazul) and Naib Tahsildar (Nazul) at Jabalpur whereas M.Cri.C.No. 4261/2010 is the petition, under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for brevity the ‘Cr.P.C.’), moved by Alok Kumar Shrivastava, the then Nazul Officer at Jabalpur, for quashing of the FIR and the corresponding investigation as against him.

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