Subir Sarkar And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.R. 620 of 2022 Court No.

Item 7 Ssi In the matter of:- Subir Sarkar & another.

03.03.

(via video conference) Mr. Mrityunjoy Chatterjee ...for the petitioners Mr. S. G. Mukherjee, Ld. PP Mr. Arijit Ganguly Ms. Sujata Das ...for the State This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a proceeding in which a charge-sheet was submitted under Sections 21 (c ) and 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act.

Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. Arijit Ganguly and Ms. Sujata Das, learned advocates, who are present in Court today and who ordinarily appear on behalf of the State. Their engagement may be regularised in due course by the competent authority of the State.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits as follows. The petitioners are the accused in this case. They are in custody since 17.02.2021 the date on which the First Information Report was registered. A charge-sheet was submitted in April, 2021.

supplementary charge-sheet was

submitted in May, 2021. The prosecution intends to examine seven witnesses in this case. Charge was framed on 07.10.2021. Next date fixed for evidence is in March, 2022. In the meantime, the petitioner no. 1 was suffering from an injury while in custody. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioners.

Learned counsel for the State submits that although it does not appear that much delay has been occasioned in this case. Yet, the State would not come in the way if a direction is passed to expedite the proceeding since the petitioners are in custody. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioners and the State and have perused the revision petition. It appears that some delay has been occasioned in concluding the proceeding, especially considering the fact that the petitioners are in custody since 17.02.2021.

In view of the above and in the interest of justice, I request the learned trial Court to conclude the proceeding as expeditiously as possible without granting any unnecessary adjournment to any of the parties, preferably within a period of ten months from the next date of hearing.

With these observations, the revisional

application is disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copies of this order may be delivered to the learned Advocates for the parties, if applied for, upon compliance of all formalities. (Jay Sengupta, J.)