IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application(C482) No. 1184 of 2010 Mahesh Chandra Jain S/o Late Shri Shanti Prasad Jain R/o Village and post Chaktunwala P.S. Raipur, District Dehradun ………..…Petitioner Versus Praveen Gaur, S/o Shri Beni Prasad Gaur R/o Village Nehru Gram Post Office Raipur P.S. Nehry Colony, Dehradun ....……Respondent Shri Karan Anand, Advocate, present for the petitioner. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. Heard. 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 expeditiously disposal of criminal complaint case no.44 of 2008, Mahesh Chandra Jain vs. Praveen Gaur, relating to offence punishable under section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, pending 2 in the court of Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI), Dehradun. 3. The prayer made in the petition is innocuous. Criminal complaint case is pending since 2008. In view of sub-section (3) of section 143 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, which provides that the trial court shall made endeavor to decide the case within the period of six months, the prayer made in the present petition deserves to be allowed. 4. The petition under section 482 of Cr.P.C., is allowed. The trial court is directed to proceed and dispose of the aforesaid case as expeditiously as possible, keeping in mind spirit of section 143 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Parul 10.12.2010