New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday initiated suo motu proceedings to examine the need for consolidating trials in terror and other grave offences before a single court in the Delhi-NCR, warning that gaps in the existing legal architecture were allowing "hardened criminals" to exploit jurisdictional overlaps and delay trials to their advantage. Taking cognisance on its own motion, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that organised offenders frequently move across cities within the National Capital Region (NCR) -- sometimes just a few kilometres apart, to trigger jurisdictional complications, resulting in fragmented investigations, multiple courts assuming jurisdiction and pro...