Ramdas Chowdhury And ANR v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

18.02.2022 SB Ct. No.39 CRR 2716 of 2021 In the matter of : Ramdas chowdhury & Anr.

Mr. Namut Touhid Mr. Steven Souradip Biswas Mr. Aniruddha Ganguly ... for the Petitioners This is an application seeking an expeditious disposal of a proceeding in which a charge sheet was submitted under Sections 498A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

Let a copy of this revisional application be served upon Md. Anwar Hossain and Ms. Manisha Sharma, learned counsels who ordinarily appear on behalf of the State. They are requested to appear in this matter. Their engagement may be regularised by the competent authority of the State in due course. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioners are the accused in this case. The F.I.R was lodged in 2019. A charge-sheet in the same year citing eight witnesses. In fact, charges were also framed in 2019. In spite of that till date the proceeding could not be concluded. The petitioners are on bail. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault on the part of the petitioners.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that no ordinate delay has been occasioned in this case. Because of a heavy workload before the learned Trial Courts, there are even cases where people are suffering custody trial since 2018

under the provision of the NDPS Act. As such, no direction is required in this case for an expeditious disposal of the proceeding. I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels for the appearing for the petitioners and the State and have perused the revision petition.

It does not appear that an inordinate delay has been occasioned in this case.

As such, there is no need to pass a direction to expedite the trial.

However, it is expected that the learned Trial Court would conclude the proceeding as expeditiously as possible. 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.)