Jaya Banerjee v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

Court No.

Item SL-4 tbsr 13.09.

CRR 3425 of 2022 In the matter of:- Jaya Banerjee Mr. Sankar Banerjee ......for the petitioner Mr. N. Ahmed Md. Anwar Hosssain .....for the State Considering the exigency that the proceeding under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act has remained pending since 2018, the matter is taken up for hearing for considering a prayer of expeditious disposal of the case.

Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. N. Ahmed and Md. Anwar Hossain, 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 petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is the victim complainant in this case. The marriage of the petitioner has taken place in 2018. On 26.11.2019 she was constraint to lodge a complaint under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act against her husband and brother in law. In the meantime, her husband passed away. However, the matter has remained pending. The evidence has not been concluded as yet.

On the last few occasions, the case was adjourned on the prayer of the remaining accused. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault of the present petitioner. There is no revisional application pending before any Court in respect of the said proceeding.

Learned counsel for the State submits that it will not cause any prejudice to anyone if a direction is passed in respect of the petitioner's prayer for expeditious disposal.

I have heard the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of parties and have perused the revision petition.

No prejudice will be caused to anyone if a direction is passed to expedite the proceeding.

It appears that the impugned proceeding has remained pending since 2018.

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 and by keeping in mind the statutory stipulations for expeditious disposal of a proceeding under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

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.) .