Heard Shri S.H.Mittalkod, the learned counsel appearing

for the petitioners and Shri Ramesh Chigari, the learned HCGP

appearing for the respondent State.

2.

The petitioners in all these cases are land losers,

whose lands were acquired for the purpose of particular

projects. The cases at hand do not concern the proceedings of

compensation or its enhancement. The present proceedings

arise out of the order passed by the Court hearing the reference

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under the Land Acquisition Act, seeking enhancement of

compensation, for the offence punishable under sections 420,

465, 466, 468, 471 read with section 149 of the Indian Penal

Code, 1860.

3.

The

genesis

for

the

case

at

hand

is

LAC

No.439/2005, a judgment rendered on 5.2.2011. The reference

Court while considering the cases of the land losers for

enhancement, passes an order directing the CMO to file a

complaint before the jurisdictional police against all the

claimants in these cases for the act of preparation of false

exhibits P.5 to P.8 i.e., the record of rights showing the entire

land, as the land in which sugarcane crop was being grown, by

committing forgery of further exhibits P.12 and P.13 and making

use of these documents in judi