Prasanta Kumar Nath vs The State Of West Bengal & Anr
2022 Latest Caselaw 7113 Cal

28.09.2022 S/L No.47 KS

C.R.R. 1399 of 2021 Prasanta Kumar Nath

-Vs.-

The State of West Bengal & Anr.

Mr. Sandip Chakraborty Mr. Debapratim Guha Mr. Rajiv Lochan Chakraborty Ms. Anchita Sarkar ..... For the Petitioner Mr. Madhusudan Sur Mr. Dipankar Paramanick .....For the State

The present case was initiated in the year 2003. Almost 19 years have

passed since the institution of the case and only one witness has been

examined till date. Records of the revisional application reflect that earlier also

the accused persons approached this Court in C.R.R. 3603 of 2013 and a Co-

ordinate bench was pleased to pass a direction for concluding the trial within a

period of six months. However, the said direction was not adhered to by the

learned A.C.J.M., Lalbagh, Murshidabad.

Mr. Sandip Chakraborty, learned advocate appearing for the petitioner

submits that the present petitioner has been implicated alongwith another nine

relations to satisfy the grudge of the complainant/wife. Learned advocate

submits that there are hardly any allegations against any of the accused

persons and that is why purposely the complainant is dragging the trial of the

case. It has also been submitted that during pendency of the trial of the case,

two of the accused persons have expired and few of the witnesses have also

expired.

Mr. Sur, learned advocate appearing for the State has submitted that

one witness has already been examined and prosecution has left no stone

unturned for concluding the trial of the instant case.

I have considered the submissions of the petitioner and I find that very

reasonably agony has been expressed by the petitioner as for a period of 19

years the case is unnecessarily and without any effective measure pending

before the learned Trial Court. In view of the aforesaid delay, a last

opportunity is granted to the prosecution to conclude its case, as such, the

Superintendent of Police, Murshidabad would engage a Nodal Officer of this

case who will take all efforts for making the witnesses available before the

learned Trial Court on the date so fixed. The learned Trial Court is directed to

at least keep one date in a week for the purpose of the case. The other eight

witnesses required to may be served with notice for the appearance. The

Nodal Officer would assist the learned Magistrate for execution of the notice.

In case the witnesses are absent on two occasions, the learned Magistrate

would be at his liberty to proceed to the next stage. All efforts must be taken

by concluding the trial by 15 th January, 2023. Learned Magistrate would

deliver his judgment on or before 31st January, 2023 and submit a compliance

report before this Court by the 1st week of February, 2023 regarding the

disposal of the present case. This Court deprecates the practice of such

delayed trial.

With the aforesaid observations, C.R.R. 1399 of 2021 is disposed of.

Pending applications, if any, are consequently disposed of.

Learned Trial Court is directed to strictly follow the directions

mentioned above and comply with the order within the schedule so fixed.

All parties are directed to act on the server copy of this order

downloaded from the official website of this Hon'ble Court.

(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)