Pritish Bhattacharjee @ Pritihis Bhattacharyya v. State Of West Bengal
NB 14.10.2020 CRR 1406 of 2020 (via Video Conference) Ct. No. 05 In the matter of:- Pritish Bhattacharjee @ Prithis Bhattacharyya & Anr. ...petitioners Mr. Nitai Chandra Saha ...for the petitioner.
Mr. Madhusudan Sur, Mr. Manoranjan Mahata.
...for the State.
This is an application seeking expeditious disposal of a proceeding being GR Case No.3946 of 2012 pending before the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate No.1, Baruipur, South 24 Parganas under Section 498A of the Penal Code.
Let a copy of this application be served upon Mr. Madhusudan Sur, learned Additional Public Prosecutor and Mr. Manoranjan Mahata, learned Counsel who are present in Court today and who ordinarily appear on behalf of the State. Their engagement may be regularised by the competent authority of the State in due course. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submit as follows. The petitioners are the husband and the in-laws of the victim lady who happens to be the daughter of the opposite party no.2. Although the FIR was lodged as far back as in 2012, till date the proceeding could not be concluded. Although charges were framed, no evidence has yet been started. Long dates are being fixed. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault on the part of the petitioners Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that it would be in the interest of justice that the impugned proceeding is expedited. I have heard the submissions of the learned Advocates appearing
on behalf of the parties and have perused the revision petition. No prejudice will be caused to anyone if a direction is passed for an expeditious disposal of the proceeding.
It appears that there has been an inordinate delay in concluding the proceeding.
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 one year from the next date of hearing. With the above 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.)