IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 80 OF 2009 Saquib Abdul Hamid Nachan ...Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent P. S. Hingorani, APP for the State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI & A.R.JOSHI, JJ DATED : 12th FEBRUARY, 2009. P.C. Perused the report of the learned Judge received on instructions of our order dated 2nd February, 2009. 2. In this Application, the Petitioner had complained that the learned Judge, Special Court is not disposing of the application expeditiously. He had given particulars of ten applications in his Petition in which allegedly there was considerable delay in disposing of the applications. The learned Judge in his report has not at all referred to Serial No. C (1). At serial No. C(1) of particulars in Petition, there is -2- reference to Bail Application No.17 of 2005 which allegedly was reserved for orders on 9th April, 2008. This is almost admitted by the learned Judge that it was heard prior to 9th April, 2008 but still as on today the application is undecided. Other applications to which reference is made in the Writ Petition, most of them have been decided very recently, although five of the applications were moved in 2007, two applications were moved in January, 2008, one application was moved in April, 2008 and another application was moved in August, 2008. This is a serious matter, where the judges do not decide the applications within a reasonable period of time and bail application should not take more than a year to get decided. The Bail Application No. 17 of 2005 has been moved on 15th January, 2008 and it is yet to be decided by the learned Judge. This matter needs to be considered administratively. 3. Place the matter before the learned Chief Justice. A copy of the application received from the Petitioner alongwith the report received from the learned Judge be placed before the learned Chief Justice. No further orders are necessary to be passed except directing the learned Judge to dispose of the bail applications and other connected applications pending before him within a reasonable period of time. -3- 4. The Petition is disposed of. (A. R. JOSHI, J.) (BILAL NAZKI, J.)