Court No. 6 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application No. 3 of 2008 Vedvrat Aged about 25 years S/o Shri Udai Singh R/o Village Kundeshwari, Police Station Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar …Applicant Vs. 1- State of Uttarakhand 2- Anoop Kumar Negi S/o Kamal Singh Negi, R/o Village Kundeshwari, P. S. Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar ….Respondents Sri S. K. Mandal, Advocate, for the applicant. Learned A.G.A. for respondent no. 1. Dated: January 3, 2008 Hon’ble B. C. Kandpal, J. By way of this petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. the petitioner, who is an accused in criminal case no. 128 of 2003 (New No. 623 of 2007), State versus Vedvrat, under Section 386 of I.P.C., pending in the couret of Judicial Magistrate, Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar, has prayed for issuing direction to the trial court to dispose of the criminal case expeditiously. Brief facts giving rise to this petition are that the petitioner was implicated in Case Crime No. 286 of 2003, under Section 386 of I.P.C. and he was released on bail. The incident in this case alleged to have been taken place on 3.4.2003 and the F.I.R. was lodged on the same day. The petitioner was not named in the F.I.R., but during the course of investigation his name into light. However, the police after investigating the case submitted the charge sheet against the petitioner on 25.4.2003. After framing the charges the prosecution was directed to produce witnesses, but the prosecution on 3.12.2004 produced two prosecution witnesses and further produced prosecution witness no. 3 on 15.3.2007. The prosecution thereafter could not produce any other prosecution witness. The case is being adjourned on every date fixed on the basis of the adjournment application filed by the prosecution. The petitioner has thus filed this petition for issuing the direction to the trial court to dispose of the criminal case expeditiously. Sri S.K. Mandal, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the case against the petitioner is unnecessarily hanging upon in the air and the prosecution is not making any serious effort to produce the witnesses and under this circumstance the petitioner is facing the harassment and is continuously under embarrassing situation. After having considered the submission raised by learned counsel for the petitioner and having perused the material available on record, I am of the view that the prayer of the petitioner appears to be innocuous. I, therefore, direct the trial court to dispose of the criminal case pending before it, expeditiously and without causing any unreasonable delay, preferably within a period of six months from today. With the aforesaid observations, the petition is finally disposed of. Stay order, if any, stands vacated. (B.C. Kandpal, J) SP