High Court of KeralaOP(Crl.)/177/2015disposed of

Priyan v. The State Of Kerala

2015-06-24Honourable Mr. Justice Alexander Thomas4 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM

PRESENT:

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALEXANDER THOMAS WEDNESDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF JUNE 2015/3RD ASHADHA, 1937 OP(Crl.).No. 177 of 2015 (Q) CC 257/2014 of CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE COURT, MANJERI ------------------ PETITIONER :

------------------ PRIYAN, AGED 33 YEARS, S/O.BALAN, PUTHEZHATH HOUSE, PATHAPIRIYAM MALAPPURAM DISTRICT BY ADVS.SRI.BABU S. NAIR SRI.K.RAKESH RESPONDENT :

-------------------- THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM KOCHI 682031 FOR THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, EDAVANNA POLICE STATION, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SMT. SAREENA GEORGE THIS OP (CRIMINAL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 24-06-2015, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:

OP(Crl.).No. 177 of 2015 (Q) APPENDIX PETITIONER(S)' EXHIBITS ------------------------------------- P1:

TRUE COPY OF THE SUMMONS ISSUED FROM THE CJM MANJERI TO THE PETITIONER IN CC.NO.257/2014 RESPONDENT(S)' EXHIBITS :

NIL.

//TRUE COPY// P.A. TO JUDGE bp

ALEXANDER THOMAS, J.

O.P(Crl).No.177 Of 2015 --------------------------------- th day of June, 2015.

Dated this the 24

J U D G M E N T

The only prayer in this Original Petition instituted under Article 227 of the Constitution of India under the visitorial power of superintendence conferred on this Court is as follows: "To issue a direction to the C.J.M, Manjeri to expedite the trial of C.C.No.257/2014."

As directed by this Court, the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Manjeri, has furnished a report dated 19.6.2015 to the Registry for perusal of this Court wherein it is stated that the present case C.C.No.257/2014 is now posted for framing of charges to 23.7.2015 and that there are 9 witnesses cited by the prosecution in the report to prove the case and that after framing charges at least four months will be required for completion of the trial and the total number of cases pending before that court including Calendar cases and Miscellaneous Cases together comes to 810 as of now. 3.

Heard Sri.Babu S.Nair, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State of Kerala.

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O.P(Crl).No.177 Of 2015 4.

Taking into account the totality of the facts and circumstances of this case and considering the report dated 19.6.2015 furnished by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Manjeri, it is ordered in the interest of justice that the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Manjeri will take all reasonable endeavours to ensure that C.C.No.257/2014 is disposed of without much further delay and it is hoped and expected that C.C.No.257/2014 will be endeavoured to be finally disposed of by the court below within the time limit suggested in the report of that court. It is further made clear that this shall be subject to all the parties including the other witnesses concerned in fully co-operating with the court below for completion of trial as stated above. With these observations and directions, this Original Petition (Crl) stands finally disposed of.

ALEXANDER THOMAS, Judge.

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