COMMON ORDER

Since the issues involved in all the revisions are substantially the same, all the revisions are taken up and a common order is passed.

2. The broad submissions of the petitioners in all the cases is that the petitioners' applications for statutory bail were dismissed by the trial Court belatedly; that the extension applications filed by the respondent was not considered along with bail applications; that in any case, indefeasible right of the accused accrues on the expiry of the statutory period and notwithstanding the pendency of extension application, the accused are entitled to bail.

3. In one of the cases viz., Crl.R.C.No.1847 of 2024, the challenge is to the order passed in the extension application filed by the respondent and it is the case of the petitioner that since the extension application did not satisfy the requirements in law, the order passed by the learned Special Judge has to be set aside.

4. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that in all the cases the extension applications were filed much before the statutory period prescribed for filing the final report; that the delay if any by the learned Judge in considering the application, canno