Subrata Chowdhury v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

C.R.R. 632 of 2022 Court No.

Item 8 Ssi In the matter of:- Subrata Chowdhury 07.03.

(via video conference) Mr. Tanmoy Samanta Ms. Paromita Malakar Ms. Swarnali Halder ...for the petitioner This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a proceeding under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is the husband of the opposite party. The opposite party filed an application under Section 125 of the Code way back in 2015. As per direction of the learned Magistrate, the petitioner is paying interim maintenance allowance granted in favour of the wife and the minor children. Yet, the main proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioner. Accordingly, a direction may be passed to expedite the proceeding.

I have heard the submissions of the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and have perused the revision petition.

No prejudice will be caused to anyone if a direction is passed in respect of a prayer made for

expeditious disposal of the impugned proceeding. Although it appears that on the last few occasions, adjournments were sought for on behalf of the opposite party, it also appears from the order-sheet that on numerous other occasions, the petitioner had prayed for adjournments. In fact, on one such occasion, he had to pay cost for delaying the proceedings. Therefore, I do not find any need to direct an expeditious disposal of the proceeding on this application filed by the petitioner.

However, it is expected that the learned trial Court would conclude the proceeding as expeditiously as possible.

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.)