COMMON ORDER

These petitions are filed seeking to quash the final report in C.C.No.20 of

2021 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.IV, Thoothukudi.

2. The present petitions are filed by the A2 and A3. The case of the prosecution in a nutshell is as follows:

Babukumar (A1) was working as a Manager in Maris Associates Private Limited. He was given full charge of the said company by all the Directors. He was also operating the company's bank account with Indian Bank, Beach Road, Thoothukudi. It is the case of the prosecution that during the month of March 2017, the Company received a notice from the office of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) claiming a sum of Rs.1,08,00,000/- (Rupees One Crore Eight Lakh only) for payment of provident fund for the period from July 2016 to January 2017. Thereafter, the Directors of the Company, on scrutiny of accounts found that fabricated receipts of EPF challans were found in the accounts maintained by the Maris Associates. On their further scrutiny, they found that Babukumar (A1), the Manager of the Company had transferred a sum of Rs.6,82,51,745/- (Six Crore Eighty Two Lakh and Fifty One Thousand Seven Hundred Forty Five only) from the C