Orders reserved on 25-02-2026 Orders pronounced on 09-03-2022062 6:APHC:8959 Orders uploaded on 09-03-2026 APHC010024442026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3397]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

MONDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VENUTHURUMALLI GOPALA KRISHNA RAO TRANSFER CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5/2026 Between:

Bommarillu Farms And Villas India Ltd and Others ...PETITIONER(S)

AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner(S):

1. R SIVA SAI SWARUP Counsel for the Respondent:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR APHC010026762026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3397]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

MONDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VENUTHURUMALLI GOPALA KRISHNA RAO TRANSFER CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6/2026 Between:

Bommarillu Farms And Villas India Ltd., and ...PETITIONER(S)

Others AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner(S):

1. R SIVA SAI SWARUP Counsel for the Respondent:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR APHC010028932026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3397]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

MONDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VENUTHURUMALLI GOPALA KRISHNA RAO TRANSFER CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7/2026 Between:

Bommarillu Farms And Villas India Ltd and Others ...PETITIONER(S)

AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner(S):

1. R SIVA SAI SWARUP Counsel for the Respondent:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:

COMMON ORDER:

Transfer Criminal Petition Nos. 5 to 7 of 2026, under Section

447 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ' the B.N.S.S.'), are filed by the petitioners-accused Nos. 1 to 3 and 6 seeking to withdraw C.C.Nos. 1 to 3 of 2018 respectively from the file of the Court of learned Special Judge to try the cases under the Andhra Pradesh Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishments Act, 1999 – cum – Principal District and Sessions Judge, Srikakulam, and transfer the same to the file of the Court of learned Special Judge to try the cases under the Andhra Pradesh Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishments Act, 1999 – cum – Metropolitan Sessions Judge – cum – I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam, to be tried along with C.C.No. 36 of 2017.

2. Since all the transfer criminal petitions are filed by the same petitioners and the issues involved in all the transfer criminal petitions are also one and the same, the same are being disposed of by way of this common order.

3. The case of the petitioners, in brief, is as follows:

Petitioner No. 4 herein-accused No. 6 is the Director of petitioner Nos. 1 to 3-accused Nos. 1 to 3 companies and her husband by name Rayala Raja Rao-accused No. 5 is the Managing Director of petitioner Nos. 1 to 3-accused Nos. 1 to 3 companies. If cases are registered by the same prosecution agency in different places within the State on the very same subject matter on the same accused, as per the procedure of law, all the cases must be clubbed with the one registration of a case and to conduct common trial to avoid any conflict of judgments in the interest of both parties. All the petitioners herein are residing at Hyderabad and it is very much difficult to move from Hyderabad to attend all the way to Srikakulam. There is also transportation problem as there are no direct trains to Srikakulam. If multiple FIRs arise from the same transaction or incident, they should be clubbed and tried together to prevent conflicting outcomes. All cases are to be tried together before learned Special Judge, Visakhapatnam, only along with the other connected matter. The Honourable Apex Court held that consolidation or transfer of criminal cases involving the same offence by the same accused in different locations for joint trial to avoid conflicting judgments, ensure fairness and prevent multiplicity by c