N.S. SHEKHAWAT J. ORAL

1. The petitioners have filed the present petition under Section 407 of Cr.P.C. for transfer of trial of case bearing No.CIS No.CHI 570/2021 titled as “State of Haryana Vs. Ranjit Singh” pending in the Court of CJM, Jind in a case FIR No.343 dated 31.08.2020 (Annexure P-4) under Sections 420, 406 of IPC registered at Police Station Civil Line Jind, District Jind, Haryana from the Court of CJM, Jind (Haryana) to Court of CJM, Jalandhar (Punjab).

2. The FIR in the present case was registered on the basis of the complaint moved by several persons, namely, Sajjan Malik, Ramesh Chander Malik, Arun Kumar, Virender Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Bijender Kumar, Subhash Chander, Naveen Kundu, Ram Mehar, Rakesh Kumar, Rajesh, Ajmerdeen, Ramesh Redhu, Jogender Singh, Tejender Singh, Ombir Jaglan, Shamsher Singh, Nishu, Deepak, Rajesh Kumar and Ravinder Singh. As per the complainants, the accused had started a marketing Company network “OLS Whizz Pvt. Ltd.”. The office of the Company was at Jalandhar. However, the Company used to sell the domestic articles to the customers. Apart from that, the Company used to take a sum of Rs.2,000/- per month for 11 months and used to promise the