Tapan Halder @ Tutun v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.R. 963 of 2021 Court No.

Item 19 ssi (via video conference) 30.11.

In the matter of:- Tapan Halder @ Tutun Mr. Mazahar Hossain Chowdhury ...for the petitioner Mr. S. G. Mukherjee, Ld. PP Mr. Arijit Ganguly ...for the State This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a proceeding in which a charge-sheet was submitted under Section 21 (c) of the NDPS Act. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is an accused in this case. He was arrested on 03.04.2020 the date on which the FIR was lodged. A charge-sheet was submitted citing 7 witnesses. Although the charges were framed in 2021, till date the trial could not be concluded. Long dates are being fixed. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioner. Learned counsel for the State submits that the State would not come in the way if a direction is passed to expedite the proceeding.

I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioner 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 petitioner is in custody since 03.04.2020. 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 one year 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.)