NEW DELHI: Supreme Court ruled that FIRs lodged against people for duping investors in different states cannot be clubbed into one FIR for the convenience of the accused as it would entail long-distance travel for witnesses and complainants during trial proceedings. Dealing with a plea of Pavan Kumar Odela-run Falcon Capital Ventures for clubbing of existing and future FIRs in various states against him and his other family members for allegedly duping thousands of investors, a bench of CJI B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran said the “prayers for clubbing FIRs from various states and also regarding future FIRs are overambitious and outright illegal... The prayer regarding future FIRs is one which cannot be granted by any court of law”. SC agreed to club multiple FIRs lodged agains

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