Sariful Gazi v. State Of West Bengal

CRR 1135 of 2021 Court No.

Item 23 tbsr In the matter of:- Sariful Gazi 30.11.

Mr. Mazhar Hossain Chowdhury .....for the petitioner Mr. S.G. Mukherjee, Ld. P. P.

Mr. Md. Kutubuddin .....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 is in custody since 28.01.2020 the date on which the FIR was registered. Although the charge-sheet was submitted in 2020 citing seven witnesses and thereafter a charge was framed, till date the proceeding could not be concluded. The next date is fixed as 18.12.2021 for evidence. The matter 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 trial.

I have heard 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 languishing in custody since 28.01.2020.

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.)