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These Criminal Original Petitions have been filed seeking to transfer the case in C.C.No.571 of 2022 from the file of the learned Special Judge for Communal Clash Cases, Madurai, to any one of the Courts having competent jurisdiction to try the said case within the Sessions Division of any other District, and to further direct such transferee Court to adjudicate and dispose of the said case at the earliest; and to direct the learned Special Judge for Communal Clash Cases, Madurai District, to recall the non-bailable warrant issued against the petitioner in C.C.No.571 of 2022, on 18.09.2025.

2. The petitioner is facing trial in C.C.No.571 of 2022 for the offences punishable under Sections 8 (c) and 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 , for the alleged possession of 35 kgs of ganja.

3. The petitioner had made certain averments in the petition that the learned Judge had openly proclaimed that the petitioner would be convicted and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment and that the learned Judge would not consider any evidence adduced on the side of the defence.

4. When Crl.O.P.(MD) No.14730 of 2025 came up for admission on

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