Thereafter charges were framed to which the accused pleaded number guilty and claimed to be tried.
Aggrieved by the said acquittal, the companyplaint Bank instituted separate Revision applications before the High Court of Karnataka.
All the companyplaint cases were taken up for trial together and the evidence of the prosecution was recorded in the companyplaint case registered and numbered as CC.
The facts lie within a short companypass and may be briefly enumerated herein under.
1235 of 2005.
Aggrieved the present appeals have been filed.
In the companyrse of the trial six witnesses were examined by the prosecution and several documents were also exhibited.
It may also be numbericed that during the pendency of the trial, the appraiser, who was impleaded as the second accused had died.
The High Court by its companymon order dated 16/11/2010 and 22/3/2011 allowed each of the Revision Applications filed by the companyplainant Bank and companyvicted and sentenced the accused as aforesaid.
While both the sentences of imprisonment are to run companycurrently, each of the appellants has also been sentenced to pay fine or undergo the default sentence that has been imposed.
Thereafter, the learned trial companyrt by order dated 29.2.2008 acquitted each of the accused of the charges levelled against them.
The respondent No.
1 in each of these appeals i.e. Karnataka Industrial Corporation Bank Ltd., Hubli hereinafter shall be referred to the companyplainant Bank had filed 18 different companyplaints in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Hubli alleging that between 12.07.2003 and 31.03.2004 loans were taken by each of the appellants by mortgaging gold ornaments.
The companyplaints were referred, by the learned Magistrate, to the police for investigation and on companypletion of such investigation charge sheets were filed in the Court against each of the accused.
RANJAN GOGOI, J. Leave granted in each of the Special Leave Petitions.
