-: 1 :- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.386 OF 2O04 Rajendra S. Bidkar : Petitioner V/s. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. : Respondents ... Mrs.P.H.Kantharia, Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. ... WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.721 OF 2004 Sunil Suresh Shinde : Petitioner V/s. State of Maharashtra : Respondent ... Ms R.B.Amrolia with Mr.Y.N.Katpitia for the petitioner. Mrs.P.H.Kantharia, Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. ... CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1094 OF 2004 India Centre for Human Rights and Law & Anr. : Petitioner V/s. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. : Respondents ... Mrs.P.H.Kantharia, Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. -: 2 :- ... AND CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.176 OF 2002 Chhotekha Tayyabkha Pathan : Petitioner V/s. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. : Respondents ... Mrs.P.H.Kantharia, Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. ... CORAM : BILAL NAZKI & S.A.BOBDE,JJ. DATE : FEBRUARY 06, 2008. P.C. 1. These Writ Petitions were filed by the petitioners for challenging their individual grievances, but at some stage, the Court enlarged the scope of these Writ Petitions as it came to the notice of the Court that a large number of prisoners are kept in prisons without being produced in Courts on the dates fixed for their trial or in connection with remand. Several directions came to be passed by several orders. Ultimately, the Advocate General was requested by the Court to assist the Court to arrange certain meetings with officials of the State and also officials from the prisons and, ultimately, several steps were taken which could ensure that prisoners were brought to the Courts when their cases were fixed for trial and remand was taken by video conferencing while -: 3 :- production of prisoners before the Magistrate was not possible. According to the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Addl. Public Prosecutor, the guidelines framed by the Government are in force and are being implemented. 2. In this view of the matter, we do not think that any further orders are necessary to be passed in these Writ Petitions which are, accordingly, disposed of. However, the directions given by this Court earlier shall strictly remain operative. (BILAL NAZKI, J.) (S.A. BOBDE, J.)