THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.755 of 2002 DATED: 15-07-2010 ORDER: This revision is filed by the petitioner questioning the order, dated 17-01-2002, passed in Crl.M.P.No.3779 of 2001 in C.C.No.758 of 1999 by the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nizamabad. 2. 1st Respondent herein filed three private complaints under Sections 138 and 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (for brevity, ‘the Act’), alleging that the cheques that have been issued by the petitioner are bounced. The learned Magistrate numbered the said complaints as C.C.Nos.758 of 1999; 628 of 2000 and 621 of 2000. As the charges are one and the same and the subject-matter also is one and the same, the 1st respondent herein filed Crl.M.P.No.3779 of 2001, requesting the Court to club all the three cases and decide together. However, the learned Magistrate vide order, dated 17-01-2002, dismissed the petition. Hence, he approached this Court and filed the present revision requesting this Court to direct the learned Magistrate to club all the three matters and decide the same. This Court while admitting this revision on 25-06-2002, granted interim stay of all further proceedings in the three cases. 3. Though notice was served on the 1st respondent, he has not chosen to put up his appearance. Apparently, those three cases are of the year, 1999 and 2000, that too, filed for the offence punishable under Section 138 of the Act. In fact, the learned Magistrate ought to have allowed the said application as the subject-matter in the above three cases is one and the same. The view expressed by the learned Magistrate, that it would be more inconvenient and leads to confusion, in my considered view, appears to be incorrect. Unnecessarily these matters are stayed for a long period i.e., for more than ten years. 4. Accordingly, this Criminal Revision Case is allowed and the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nizamabad is hereby directed to club the three cases and decide the same at the earliest, preferably within a period of six months. _______________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA,J 15th July, 2010. Tsy