(1.) All these Criminal Original Petitions have been filed by the petitioners/A4, A5, A2 & A3 to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.66 of 2016 pending on the file of the Principal Sessions Court, Chennai.
(2.) Originally the charge sheet was filed before the learned Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, taken on file as C.C.No.15214 of 2008 and later transferred to the file of the Principal Sessions Judge, Chennai and renumbered as C.C.No.66 of 2016 since the Enforcement Directorate, Chennai filed a complaint against A4 herein, Proprietor of M/s.Gain-N-Nature Food Products.
(3.) Since all these petitions arise out of C.C.No.66 of 2016, the same are taken up for consideration and disposed by way of common order. For convenience and clarity, the petitioners are referred to as accused, as per their rank, in the charge sheet.