Swati Roy v. Bidisha Basu (Banerjee) And ANR

C.R.R. 833 of 2022 Court No.

Item 16 Ssi In the matter of:- Swati Roy 17.03.

(via video conference) Mr. Sabir Ahmed Mr. Mujibar Ali Naskar ...for the petitioner This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a complaint case under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is the complainant in this case. She filed the petition of complaint under Section of the Negotiable Instruments Act in 2016. In 2018, the plea was recorded. In spite of this, till date only one witness could be examined, that too in part. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioner. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the and have perused the revision petition.

No prejudice will be caused to anyone if a direction is passed to expedite the proceeding. There is a statutory stipulation for an expeditious conclusion of a proceeding under Section 138 of the

Negotiable Instruments Act as contained in the said Act. Therefore, it is unfortunate that for a complaint case under such provision that was filed in 2016 for which plea was recorded in 2018, the proceeding could not be completed till date.

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 six 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.)