1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 2361 OF 2008 Vijaykumar Harihar Giri ...Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent. Mr. I.A. Bagaria for the Petitioner Mr. K.V. Saste, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the Respondent. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATE: MARCH 23, 2009 P.C.:- Though there are many grievances in this application from the prisoner, who has written this letter from the prison, after hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, we feel that trial in a case, which was filed in 2008, has been stopped because of pendency of another case under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (hereinafter 'MCOCA', for short). We are told at the Bar that trial in Case No. 482 of 2008 had started, and examination-in-chief of P.W.1 was over, and before he could be cross-examined, the trial was stayed, so that prosecution in another case filed under MCOCA, viz., Case No. 529 of 2 2007, proceeded, as an application was filed by the State under Section 10 of the MCOCA. 2. Without going into the controversy whether the trial should have been stayed or not, we dispose of this petition, in view of the statement made by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that the prosecution has no objection if all the trials go simultaneously. We are told that all the cases of the petitioner are pending in the same Court. 3. Therefore, we direct the learned Judge to take up the trial in all the cases, and try to dispose them of as early as possible. BILAL NAZKI, J. A.R. JOSHI, J.