Golden Singh v. State Of West Bengal

C.R.R. 2588 of 2021 Court No.

Item 26 Ssi In the matter of:- Golden Singh 02.02.

(via video conference) Mr. Subhajit Chowdhury Mr. Husen Mustafi ...for the petitioner Mr. Saswata Gopal Mukherjee, Ld. PP Mr. Arijit Ganguly Mr. Sanjib Kumar Dan ...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 N.D.P.S. Act. Affidavit of service filed on behalf of the petitioner is taken on record.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is in custody since 08.09.2020 the date on which the First Information Report was registered. A charge-sheet was submitted on 17.11.2020. The prosecution seeks to examine nine witnesses. The charge was also framed on 07.12.2021. Yet, till date not a single witness could be examined. 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 08.09.2020. 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 ten months from the resumption of normal functioning of the Court. 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.)