COMMON ORDER:

All these Criminal Petitions are filed by the respective petitioners under Section - 482 of the Code of the Criminal Procedure, 1973, to quash the proceedings in the respective CrimesiCalendar Cases/Sessions Cases registered for the offences under Sections - 188,269,2'70,272,273,328,336 & 420 read with 34,149,511 ofIPC; Sections - 3 (m), 20 (2),21 (1),21 (2), 22,7 (3) and 7 (5) of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce. Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (for short'COTP Act') and Sections - 58 and 59 (i) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (for short 'FSS Act').

2. The nature of allegations in all these off'ences relate to transportation, sale, possession, manufacture, storage, etc. of tobacco products including khaini, zarda, pan masala and other such allegedlvharmfll and banned products.

3.

Heard leamed counsel for the respective parties and learned Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the respondents State, and perused the record.

4. Perusal of the record would reveal that the /rs involved in this batch ofcases had already dealt with by this Court extensively vide commonorderda