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D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J. B. PARDIWALA
Pawan Khera – Appellant
Versus
State of Assam – Respondent
ORDER
1. The details of the FIRs which have been registered against the petitioner are set out below:
(i) FIR No 65 of 2023 registered at PS Hazratganj, Lucknow on 20 February 2023;
(ii) FIR No 86 of 2023 registered at PS Cantt, Varanasi on 20 February 2023; and
(iii) FIR No 19 of 2023 registered at PS Haflong, Dima Hasao, Assam on 22 February 2023.
2. By the order of this Court dated 23 February 2023, the petition was entertained confined to the issue as to whether the FIRs which were registered against the petitioner should be clubbed in one and the same jurisdiction. Such a course of action has been previously adopted by this Court in Arnab Ranjan Goswami v Union of India, (2020) 14 SCC 2012.
3. Notice was accordingly issued on the prayer of the petitioner for transferring and clubbing of the FIRs which were registered in respect of the press conference in question in one jurisdiction.
4. On 23 February 2023, this Court issued the following interim directions:
"(iv) In order to enable the petitioner to apply for regular bail before the jurisdictional court, upon the FIRs being transferred to one jurisdiction, we direct that the petitioner shall be released on interim bail by the court o
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