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Five among the accused in 23 crimes registered at different police stations have come up before this Court with a request to have the cases relating to all those crimes to be clubbed together as one case, thereby enabling the same to be tried together before one among the courts. 2. Petitioners are youngsters of the age group of

25-30. They are hailing from the State of Punjab. They have invented a peculiar modus operandi to cheat the State Bank of Travancore as well as the Federal Bank Limited. They used to fly from New Delhi to Nedumbassery, from where they used to hire a taxi and proceed to Thiruvananthapuram and other different locations, and to return to Nedumbassery. On the way, they used to step down at the ATM counters of the Federal Bank Limited and the State Bank of Travancore. By making use of different ATM cards procured from ICICI Bank, Axis Bank as well as HDFC Bank, they used to withdraw money from the ATM counters of the State Bank of Travancore and the Federal Bank Limited. For getting money, they used to insert the ATM cards and feed the PIN number. When money comes out for ₹10,000/-, they used to pick up ₹9,500/- out of it and lea