IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOMAS P.JOSEPH THURSDAY, THE 31ST MARCH 2011 / 10TH CHAITHRA 1933 OP(Crl.).No. 1261 of 2011(Q) ---------------------------------------- [CC.NO.280/2007 OF J.M.C.M-III,THIRUVANANTHAPURAM] .................... PETITIONER/IST ACCUSED: ---------------------------------------- LINDA SCARIA,D/O.LISSIE SCARIA, AGED 27 YEARS,MADAKKMOOTTIL HOUSE, POOVANTHURUTHU.P.O,KOTTAYAM. BY ADVS. SRI.SUMAN CHAKRAVARTHY, SRI.A.S.ANILKUMAR. RESPONDENT: ---------------------- STATE OF KERALA,REPRESENTED BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF KERALA. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI. K.J. MOHAMMED ANZAR. THIS OP (CRIMINAL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 31/03/2011,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: prv. THOMAS P. JOSEPH, J. -------------------------------------- O.P.(Crl.) No.1261 of 2011 -------------------------------------- Dated this the 31st day of March, 2011. JUDGMENT Petitioner is accused No.1 in C.C.No.280 of 2007 pending in the court of learned Judicial First Class Magistrate-III, Thiruvananthapuram for offences punishable under Sections 120B, 465, 468, 471 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code. Petitioner says that at a time when she passed the Plus-2 course her father came across a newspaper advertisement offering admission for nursing course outside state of Kerala. Accordingly, petitioner’s father met respondent No.3 who offered to arrange a nursing course for petitioner. Respondent No.3 accordingly arranged admission for petitioner in a college at Bangalore. But respondent No.3 manipulated some certificates of petitioner to get admission. Subsequently petitioner was given in marriage, and learning about pendency of the criminal case her husband filed a petition before Family Court for divorce raising pendency of the criminal case as the major issue. Petitioner filed petition in the same court for restitution of conjugal rights. Family Court dismissed petition for divorce and allowed the petition for restitution of conjugal rights. It is submitted that matrimonial appeals are pending in this Court. It is also submitted that pendency of C.C.No.280 of 2007 is one of the important matters that is being urged by the husband of petitioner in the matrimonial appeals. Petitioner therefore wants an early disposal of the case. OP(Crl.) No.1261/2011 2 2. Without understanding the volume of work of the court concerned and priority for disposal of older cased I do not consider it proper to issue a direction for time bound disposal of the case. At the same time bearing in mind that the case is of the year 2007 and the piquant situation in which petitioner is placed it is only appropriate that C.C.No.280 of 2007 is disposed of as early as possible. Hence learned Judicial First Class Magistrate-III, Thiruvananthapuram, is directed to dispose of C.C.No.280 of 2007 as expeditiously as possible in the absence of any legal impediment in doing so. This Petition is disposed of as above. THOMAS P.JOSEPH, Judge. cks