JUDGMENT :

U. DURGA PRASAD RAO, J.

1. The petitioner/sole accused in C.C. No. 191/2015 on the file of I Additional Junior Civil Judge, Bhimavaram prays to transfer the said case to the Court of II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Bhimavaram and try along with C.C. No. 576/2015.

2. The 1st respondent filed C.C. No. 191/2015 against the petitioner for the offence under Sections 138 and 142 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (for short ‘the NI Act’). The petitioner's case is that the complainant is only a name lender to one Kanagarla Vijaya Rama Krishna who was doing chit fund business in Bhimavaram. The petitioner was a member in the said chit fund business and in that connection the said Vijaya Rama Krishna obtained ten signed blank cheques from him. Later, disputes arose between them due to which C.C. No. 191/2015 and two other similar cases i.e. C.C. No. 189/2015 and C.C. No. 576/2015 were filed. In all the three cases, the common defence plea of the petitioner is that K. Vijaya Rama Krishna who is the complainant in C.C. No. 189/2015 got filed all the three cases against him by misusing the blank signed cheques available with him which were obtained from him towards securi