Govind Keshavrao Jogdand v. The State Of Maharashtra And Another

2025:BHC-AUG:23839 31 BA.2324.2024.odt

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY,

BENCH AT AURANGABAD.

31 BAIL APPLICATION NO. 2324 OF 2024 GOVIND KESHAVRAO JOGDAND

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER ...

Advocate for Applicant : Mr. Sudarshan J. Salunke. APP for Respondent/State : Mr. D. J. Patil.

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CORAM :

SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, J.

DATE :

25th August, 2025.

P.C.:

After hearing the learned advocates for the respective parties, when this Court expressed disinclination to grant relief, the learned counsel for applicant, on instructions, seeks leave to withdraw this application.

Leave granted. The bail application is disposed of as withdrawn. The learned counsel for applicant further prayed that the trial may be expedited.

The speedy trial is right of the accused. Therefore, the prayer of the applicant for expeditious trial deserves to be allowed with the following directions:- I) The Trial Court is directed to decide the case as expeditiously as possible, in any case within six months.

31 BA.2324.2024.odt Needless to mention that it is a sessions trial and word "sessions" means once it is started it shall not be stopped till it is concluded.

II) For that purpose, the Trial Court is expected to keep the date twice in a week and conclude the trial accordingly. III) The Trial Court is further directed not to grant adjournments if it is prayed on behalf of either the prosecution or the defence unless there is extreme urgency or reasonable ground. If the accused are not produced, the Trial Court may call the jail authority and escort party and warn them by passing an order accordingly by giving one opportunity to them to produce the accused, under trial prisoners continuously. If it is not followed then the Trial Court may proceed against these authorities for not following the order of the legal authority of public servant as per the (applicable) provisions of Chapter X of the Indian Penal Code. If the advocates for accused or the pubic prosecutor are not cooperating the Court for conducting the trial as expeditiously as possible, the Trial Court may impose heavy costs on the concerned accused.

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