Rejaul Karim And ORS v. State Of West Bengal
CRR 1239 of 2021 Court No.
Item 23 tbsr 10.03.
In the matter of:- Rejaul Karim & Ors.
Mr. Angshuman Chakraborty Mr. Shashanka Shekhar Saha .....for the petitioners Mr. Anwar Hossain Ms. Ratna Ghosh .....for the State This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a proceeding in which a charge sheet was submitted under Sections 336, 337, 338, 420 and 120B of the Penal Code.
Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. Anwar Hossain and Ms. Ratna Ghosh, learned counsels, 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. The FIR in this case was lodged on 03.08.2016 and charge sheet was submitted on 15.12.2018. Yet, long dates are being fixed. On 01.07.2020 the next date was fixed as 20.08.2022 for consideration of framing of charge. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioners.
Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that no inordinate delay has been occasioned in this proceeding.
I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioners and the State and have perused the revision petition. No prejudice will be caused to anyone if a direction is passed in respect of a prayer for expeditious hearing of the case.
Although this is a case under Sections 336, 337, 338, 420 and 120B of the Penal Code initiated in 2016 and the present petitioners are on bail, yet fixing the next date of hearing after two years is quite exceptional. In view of the above, I request the learned trial court to conclude the proceeding as expeditiously as possible by fixing shorter dates and without granting any unnecessary adjournment to any of the parties. With these observations, the revisional application is disposed of.
Urgent photostat certified copy of this order may be supplied to the parties expeditiously, if applied for. (Jay Sengupta, J.)