Anil Bhuwalka @ Anil Kumar Bhuwalka v. The State Of West Bengal

sForm No. J(2)

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Criminal Revisional Jurisdiction Appellate Side

Present:

The Hon'ble Justice Jay Sengupta CRR 1729 of 2020 Anil Bhuwalka @ Anil Kumar Bhuwalka Vs.

State of W.B.

For the Petitioner : Mrs. Sinthia Bala : Mr. Diptendu Banerjee For the State : Mr. Rana Mukherjee, Ld. APP : Ms. Sujata Das Heard on: 10th December, 2020 Judgment on : 10th December, 2020 The Court:

This is an application praying for expeditious disposal of a sessions case.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is an accused in the present case where a charge-sheet was submitted under Section 306 read with Section 34 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. Although the FIR was lodged in

2010 and the charge-sheet was submitted also in the year 2010, the proceeding could not be concluded yet. A charge was framed in 2015. Out of the total twenty seven witnesses only four witnesses have been examined till date. The last time a witness was examined was in 2018. The defacto complainant never turned up to depose as a witness. The proceeding has remained pending for no fault on the part of the present petitioner.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of 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.

No one will be prejudiced if an appropriate direction is passed in this regard.

It appears that an inordinate delay has taken place in the trial of the present case. Whoever is responsible for the delay, the proceeding needs to be expedited.

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 without granting any unnecessary adjournment to any of the parties, preferably within a period of one year from the next date of hearing.

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.) ssi