These three criminal revision petitions are filed by

the petitioner, who was the accused before I Addl. Civil

Judge and JMFC-I., Gadag (hereinafter referred as ‘trial

Court’ for short), wherein the revision petitioner-accused

was convicted and imposed sentence by judgment

dated:

01.10.2014

in

C.C.No.404/2009,

C.C.No.405/2009 and C.C.No.406/2009 for the offences

punishable under Section 138 of Negotiable Instrument

Act (for short ‘N.I.Act’). The same was challenged by the

revision petitioner-accused before the Addl. District and

Sessions Judge, Gadag (hereinafter referred as ‘first

appellate Court’ for short). The first appellate Court by

common order dated 29.06.2015 in Criminal Appeal

No.13/2015, 14/2015 and 15/2015, dismissed the

appeals confirming the judgment of conviction and order

of sentence.

2.

Aggrieved

by

the

same,

the

revision

petitioner, who was accused had filed these three

revision petitions. Since, these three revision petitions

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are arising out of a common judgment passed by the

first

appellate

Court.

As

both

the

parties

i.e.,

complainant and accused are same in all the three cases

and date of judgment is also same. These three petitions

are taken together and dis