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....e would only press for consolidation of the multiple FIRs in each of the States to one district within the respective States. It should also be noticed that as far as the original prayer made in the petition is concerned, on facts, it was clearly not maintainable since a similar prayer made by the petitioner in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 206 of 2020 filed in this Court on 20.07.2020 was rejected on 17.08.2020. Considering the fact that the petitioner is now seeking the alternative prayer and the respective States during the hearing have not objected to the same, we have decided to entertain the petition in the special facts and circumstances of the case. 2. In all, there are 64 FIRs registered in 10 States. The States concerned which a....
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.... 5. The petitioner herein Ravinder Singh Sidhu has been in custody since 11.10.2018. He was the Managing Director of KIM Infrastructure and Developers Limited (for short 'KIDL'). The petitioner along with other directors is alleged to have floated two schemes for allotment of developed land where customers were lured to be part of a lumpsum payment plan or a deferred payment plan. 6. When the matters stood thus, Writ Petition No. 3332 of 2010 was filed before the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at its Gwalior Bench for inquiry against financial companies including 'KIDL', on the ground that the companies were seeking deposits from the public with promise of repayment with higher returns ranging from 15 to 20 per cent. The High Court ordered....
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....s. Though in the counter affidavits, the States have opposed the clubbing, at the hearing there was a broad consensus about consolidating the cases in the respective States. 10. Heard learned Senior Counsel/Counsel for the parties. The law in this issue is now fairly well settled. It has been held by this Court that multiplicity of proceedings will not be in larger public interest. Further, since many States have invoked local Acts, particularly the Act dealing with the Protection of Interest of Depositors, transferring them out of the State also will not serve the ends of justice. Hence, the correct course of action would be to merge the FIRs with the earliest FIR in the State concerned. It is clarified that if the first FIR in the resp....
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....Sirsa 5. 503/2019 COMI No. 110/2020) NA Narnaul Narnaul 13. In the State of Himachal Pradesh, the following FIR will now be merged with FIR No. 13/2019 registered at Hamirpur, P.S. Sujanpur Tira. Sr. No. FIR No. Date Police Station Place 1. 202/2019 09.12.2019 Jawali Kangra 14. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, the following FIR will now be merged with FIR No. 496/2018 dated 05.12.2018 registered at Jabalpur P.S. Lordganj. Sr. No. FIR No. Date Police Station Place 1. 176/2020 24.05.2020 Kotwali Anuppur Anuppur 15. In the State of Punjab, the following 16 FIRs will now be merged with FIR No. 198/2018 dated 23.10.2018 registered at SAS Nagar, P.S. Phase I. Sr....
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.... No. 28/2019 dated 13.01.2019 registered at Basti P.S. Kotwali. Sr. No. FIR No. Date Police Station Place 1. 82/2019 09.02.2019 Hari Parvat Agra 2. 303/2019 25.06.2019 Aonla Bareilly 3. 617/2020 25.12.2020 Nawabad Jhansi 4. 33/2019 15.03.2019 Harbans Mohal East (Commissionerate Kanpur City) 5. 55/2019 11.05.2019 Harbans Mohal East (Commissionerate Kanpur City) 6. 57/2019 14.05.2019 Harbans Mohal East (Commissionerate Kanpur City) 7. 480/2020 Sungarhi Pilibhit 8. 409/2019 Sungarhi Pilibhit 9. 119/2019 15.02.2019 Sigra Kashi (Commissionerate Varanasi) 10. 189/2019 29.05.20....
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....d also stand transferred and merged/clubbed along with the principal FIR to be proceeded with in accordance with law. 20. The investigating officer in the principal proceedings will be free to file supplementary charge-sheet on the basis of the material collated during investigation of other FIRs. We also make it clear that the other offences not part of the special enactments can also be tried by the Special Court under the concerned State legislation. We also further direct that in case the petitioner has been granted bail in connection with the principal proceeding/criminal case to which the other cases have been clubbed, the bail so granted must enure to the petitioner's favour in the other FIRs now clubbed as well. We further clarif....