IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-13128 of 2009 Date of decision : August 06, 2009 Jarnail Singh ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ....Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice L.N. Mittal Present : Mr. Rajive Sharma, Advocate for Mr. Sanjiv Pandey, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG Punjab L.N. Mittal, J. (Oral) Pursuant to order of the preceding date, status report has been received from the trial Magistrate. The same does not show satisfactory progress in the trial of the case. FIR against the petitioner was registered on 24.4.2001 and charge was framed on 21.2.2004 as mentioned in paragraph no. 3 of the petition. The trial has not yet concluded. The instant petition has been moved for direction to the trial Magistrate to decide the case expeditiously. Keeping in view the aforesaid, the instant petition is disposed of with direction to the trial Magistrate (now Shri Kapil Sharma, Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Ludhiana, as contained in status report dated 5.8.2009 Criminal Misc. No. M-13128 of 2009 -2- received by fax) to expedite the disposal of the case and preferably to dispose of the same within six months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. ( L.N. Mittal ) August 06, 2009 Judge 'dalbir'