Refuses To Club Four Cyber Fraud FIRs Across States, Says Different Victims Mean Separate Cases: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has refused to consolidate four FIRs filed against a merchant navy officer in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Odisha, ruling that because these cases involve different victims and separate transactions, they cannot be treated as a single case. The petitioner, Rutvij Bhagat Singh Wakhare, sought either to quash all four FIRs or to have them combined into one investigation, arguing that multiple jurisdictions and health issues made it difficult…