Sudipta Bairagi v. State Of West Bengal

NB/AGM 30.09.2020 CRR 1335 of 2020 With CRAN 1 of 2020 Ct. No. 19 In the matter of:- Sudipta Bairagi & Anr ...petitioners Mr. Ashok Kumar Chowdhury.

...for the petitioners.

Mr. Swapan Banerjee, Ms. Purnima Ghosh.

...for the State.

This is an application seeking expeditious disposal of a trial under Sections 20(b) and 20(c) of the NDPS Act.

Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits as follows. The First Information Report was lodged in 2017 and the charge sheet was also submitted in the same year. The petitioners are in custody in connection with the present case since 13.05.2017. Although the trial commenced, the same could not be concluded till date and has remained pending for no fault on the part of the present petitioners. About four witnesses have been examined in this case out of a total of eight witnesses. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that it will be in the interest of justice if the proceeding is concluded at the earliest. I have heard the submissions of the learned Counsel 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 for expeditious disposal is passed in this case.

In view of the above and in the interest of justice, I request the learned Trial Court to conclude the trial as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of six months from the resumption of normal functioning of the Court.

With these observations, the revisional application and the connected application are disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order may be supplied to the parties expeditiously, if applied for.

(Jay Sengupta, J.)