AJN 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.285 OF 2008 IN WRIT PETITION NO.657 OF 2007 AND WRIT PETITION NO.390 OF 2007 Mariamickal Samuel Nadar .... Applicant Vs. George Punnachkal Joseph & Ors. .... Respondents Mr. Girish Kulkarni for the applicant. Mr. A.R. Pande for the petitioner. Mr. D.U. Mirajkar for the original petitioner. Ms. V.R. Bhonsale, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, JJ. DATED : 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2008. P.C.:- 1. The applicant has filed this criminal application praying that order dated 14/8/2008 passed in Criminal Writ Petition No.390 of 2007 and Criminal Writ Petition No.657 of 2007 regarding stay of AJN 2 the investigation for four weeks, be vacated and the investigation be allowed to be continued. 2. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that order dated 14/8/2008 directs stay to continue for a period of four weeks. However, in fact, there was no stay of investigation. He submits that in the circumstances, the said order needs to be clarified and stay needs to be vacated. At this stage, learned counsel for the original petitioner states that a special leave petition is already filed in the Supreme Court and it is to come up for admission in near future. Learned counsel for the parties are agreed that during the pendency of the writ petition, there was no stay of investigation. Mr. Mirajkar learned counsel for the petitioner states that in the special leave petition, the petitioner has clearly stated that there was no stay of investigation. In view of this, there is no question of passing any order vacating stay of investigation. Criminal application is disposed of in the aforestated terms. [SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.] AJN 3 [DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.]