Five Special Leave Petitions of which three have been filed by the State of Maharashtra one by Lalit Somdatta Nagpal and one by Kapil Nagpal have been taken up for ... hearing together as they involve common questions of law relating to the application of the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act in respect of offences alleged to have been committed under Sections and of the Essential Commodities Act In order to answer the above question it is necessary to briefly set out the facts involved in these Special Leave Petitions