1. By this common order, the afore - titled two petitions challenging order dated 15.03.2019 passed by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jammu ('CJM' for short) on the applications filed by the private respondents under S.156(3) of CrPC against the petitioners, are proposed to be disposed of.

2. The private respondents filed three separate applications before the learned CJM alleging therein that they are owners in possession of land measuring 30 marlas (10 marlas each) situated at Channi Rama near Railway Road Jammu. It was alleged by the private respondents that they raised construction over their respective portions of the land in question, but Jammu Development Authority ('JDA' for short) raised a dispute with respect to the land in question. A civil litigation was filed by the private respondents which culminated in passing of a final decree in their favour. It was also pleaded by the private respondents that when one of them approached the Jammu Municipal Corporation for grant of building permission, it was revealed that except for a strip of land measuring 4'x 6', the whole land belonged to the private respondents, whereas only the aforesaid strip of land belonged to Jam