COMMON ORDER

1.Both the criminal original petitions have been filed praying to quash the proceedings in Spl.C.No.2 of 2025 on the file of the learned Special Judge for Prevention of Corruption Act Cases, Villupuram. 2. The petitioner in Crl.OP.No.32572 of 2025 is arrayed as A1 and the petitioner in Crl.OP.No.32655 of 2025 is arrayed as A4. The case of the prosecution is that the 1st accused namely R.Radhakrishnan was working as Junior Assistant in M-4 Section of District Adi Dravidar Welfare, Villupuram during the alleged period of years 2009 to 2010. 3rd & 4th Accused, namely Boominathan and Senthil Kumar were former Principals of Sri Adhi Sakthi Industrial School, Anandhapuram and Kamban Industrial School, Koliyanur respectively during the said period. For the disbursal of the Post Matric Scholarship to SC/ST student during the academic year 2009-2010, the 1st accused, with criminal intention to misappropriate the scholarship fund, had criminally conspired with accused 3 and 4 to obtain personal gain to each other. In furtherance of such conspiracy, the third accused created bogus claim application supported with forged documents in the name of fictitious students and received Rs.