IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application(C482) No. 421 of 2010 Gaganpreet Singh S/o Charanjeet Singh Kohli R/o F-35, Race Course Dehradun. ………..…Applicant. Versus Ravi Shankar Nayak S/o Shri Kamla Shankar Nayak R/o 8, Bengali Mohalla, Dehradun District Dehradun ..……Opposite party. Shri I.P. Kohli, Advocate, present for the petitioner. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. Heard. 2. By means of this petition, moved under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(for short Cr.P.C), the petitioner has sought the direction from this Court for expeditiously disposal of criminal complaint case No. 5141 of 2009 (old no. 423 of 2005), Gaganpreet Singh vs. Ravi Shankar Nayak, 2 pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate-1, Dehradun. 3. The prayer made in the petition is innocuous. The criminal complaint case appears to be pending since 2005. 4. Sub-section (2) and sub-section (3) of section 143 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, read as under:- “(2) The trial of a case under this section shall, so far as practicable, consistently with the interests of justice, be continued from day to day until its conclusion, unless the Court finds the adjournment of the trial beyond the following day to be necessary for reasons to be recorded in writing. (3) Every trial under this section shall be conducted as expeditiously as possible and an endeavour shall be made to conclude the trial within six months from the date of filing of the complaint.” 3 5. In view of the above provision of law this petition moved under section 482 of Cr.P.C., is summarily disposed of directing the trial court to decide criminal complaint case No. 5141 of 2009 (old no. 423 of 2005), Gaganpreet Singh vs. Ravi Shankar Nayar, relating to offence punishable under section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate-1, Dehradun, as expeditiously as possible, keeping in mind the spirit of the provision quoted above. Dt:13.05.2010 parul (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) 4