New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a 2019 judgment of the Delhi high court that had mandated the registration of separate first information reports (FIRs) for each investor or depositor allegedly cheated in large-scale economic offences such as Ponzi schemes and mass homebuyer frauds. A bench of justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe held that the manner in which criminal law is set into motion cannot be governed by a rigid or inflexible rule, and that whether multiple FIRs are required, or a single consolidated FIR would suffice, must depend on the facts of each case. Overturning the July 8, 2019 ruling in state v Khimji Bhai Jadeja, the apex court clarified that there can be no blanket proposition that multiple act...