ISSUE:
Whether the charge of cheating under Section 420 IPC should have been framed separately for each bill submitted, or whether a single charge covering the entire fraudulent transaction was valid?
Whether a court trying an accused for conspiracy under Section 120-B IPC is competent to try all offences committed in pursuance of that conspiracy, even if some offences occurred outside its territorial jurisdiction?
RULE:
Offences would be distinct if they are not in any way interrelated. Where multiple acts of cheating are committed in pursuance of a single conspiracy to obtain an entire sum of money, they do not constitute separate offences but rather a singular offence of cheating. The accused cannot be punished for more than one such offence when the entire course of conduct is in furtherance of one design.
A court trying an offence of conspiracy is competent to try all offences committed in pursuance of that conspiracy, regardless of whether those offences occurred outside its territorial jurisdiction. The offence of conspiracy encompasses all acts committed under its execution, and jurisdiction is determined by the locus of the conspiracy rather than the place of each offence.