Concurrent prosecutions under the IPC and Factories Act for the same incident are permissible as the laws address different legal elements and liabilities.

1. Since common question of law and facts are involved in both the petitions under S.482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , 1973 (henceforth 'the Code'), they heard analogously and are being disposed of by this common order.

2. Petitioner - S. Murali has filed the petition Cri. M. P. No. 1057/2014 challenging the entire proceedings in Criminal Case No. 428/2014 pending before Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Dabhra, Distt. Janjgir - Champa arising out of the FIR No. 65/14 registered at Police Station Dabhra, Distt. Janjgir - Champa for the offence punishable under S.304 - A / 34 of the Indian Penal Code whereas Petitioner - N. Krishna Kumar has filed the petition Cri.M.P. No. 165/2015 challenging the entire proceedings in Criminal Case No. 406/2014 pending before Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Raigarh, District Raigarh arising out of the FIR No. 33/2014 registered at Police Station Kotra Road, Distt. Raigarh for the offence punishable under S.304 - A / 34 of the Indian Penal Code . [For the sake of convenience, Cri. M. P. No. 1057/2014 is taken up as lead case]

3. Brief facts are projected by the petitioners are that the petitioners are working on the posts of Executive Vice President and Deputy General Manager, respectively in M/s RKM Powergen Pvt. Ltd., Chennai - TN, which is establishing a 4/360 MW coal based thermal Power plant at Dabhra, Distt. Janjgir - Champa. The said Company has given its construction work to Axon Construction Pvt. Ltd. and the said Axon Construction Pvt. Ltd., in turn, has given a contract to M/s Brothers Engineering and the said M/s Brothers Engineering entrusted the work to M/s Preety Erectors. While the Preeti Erectors was executing the work, one of the workers namely Gogli Prasad, while working, met with an accident on 03.10.2013 and during the course of treatment, he succumbed to the injuries on 18.10.2013. Thereafter, the Police of Police Station Dabhra, District - Janjgir - Champa registered an FIR being Crime No.65/2014 on 27.02.2014 for the offence punishable under S.304 - A / 34 of the Indian Penal Code against the petitioner and three others. After usual investigation, the police has submitted the charge sheet / final report before Judicial Magistrate First Class, Dabhra, District Janjgir - Champa on 16.07.2014, which was registered as Criminal Case No. 428/2014 for committing offence punishable under S.304 - A / 34 of IPC.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners in both the petitions would submit that the petitioners' establishment where the accident took place, is a factory as defined in S.2(m) of the Factories Act , 1948, which is extracted below : -
"S.2(m): "factory" means any premises including the precincts thereof -
(i) whereon ten or more workers are working, or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid of power, or is ordinarily so carried on, or
(ii) whereon twenty or more workers are working, or were working on any date of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on without the aid of power, or is ordinarily so carried on.

5. Learned Counsel for the petitioners would further submit that since the establishment where the accident took place is a Factory premises as defined under S.2(m) of the Factory Act, 1948 and the said incident had occurred due to negligence of the deceased / employee, therefore, a complaint under S.105 of the Factory Act, 1948 has been filed before the Judicial Magistrate First Class (Labour Court), Janjgir - Champa which was registered as Criminal Case No. 106 / FA / 2013 (State of Chhattisgarh v. Dr. S. Arumugam) against the occupier of the