Bappa Sardar And ANR v. State Of West Bengal

CRR 2449 of 2021 Court No.

Item 52 tbsr In the matter of:- Bappa Sardar & Anr.

24.12.

Mr. Angshuman Chakraborty Mr. S. S. Saha .....for the petitioners Mr. D. Chatterjee Mr. Mirza Firoz Ahmed Begg .....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. Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. D. Chatterjee and Mr. Firoz Ahmed Begg, 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. They were arrested on 19.11.2019, the date on which the FIR was registered. On 13.01.2020 a charge-sheet was submitted citing nine witnesses. Although the charges were framed on 07.10.2021, till date not a single witness could be examined. Long dates are being fixed. The next date for evidence has been fixed on 18.02.2022.

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 petitioners and the State and have perused the revision petition.

It appears that an inordinate delay has been occasioned in this case, especially considering the fact that the petitioners are in custody since 19.11.2019. 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 ten months from the next date of hearing.

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.)