SNS IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1141 OF 2010 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1142 OF 2010 Harshad K. Kothari ...Petitioner. v/s. The State ...Respondents. Mr. Jayant Gohil , adv. For the Petitioner. Smt. M.R.Tidke, APP For the Respondent/State. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATED : MARCH 11, 2011. P.C. 1 Sum and substance of the prosecution case is that accused no.1, who was customer and accused no.2, who was branch manager of Bombay Mercantile Co-operative Bank Ltd. at Abdul Rehman Street, Mumbai had played fraud and forged certain documents for the purpose of giving cash credit facility to the accused no.1. Case was registered in the year 1989 and the charge-sheet was filed in the year 1991. Trial has not yet commenced because according to the prosecution all the original documents, which were in possession of the police have been lost and they have obtained permission from the Sessions Court to lead secondary evidence. That order is challenged in the present petitions. - 2 - 2 As this is a case under Sections 465, 467, 468, 471, 420 r/w Section 120-B of the I.P.C., I am not inclined to interfere in the order passed by the Sessions Court. Therefore, petitions stand dismissed with a clarification that as and when any particular document will be tendered in evidence, the accused shall be at liberty to challenge the admissibility of the same as per the provisions of law. (J.H. BHATIA,J.) SNS IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1928 OF 2010 Noor Mohammed Abdul Rehman Mulla ...Petitioner. v/s. State ...Respondents. Mr. R. Satyanarayanan ,adv. For the Petitioner. Smt. M.R.Tidke, APP For the Respondent/State. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATED : MARCH 11, 2011. P.C. 1 The learned counsel for the petitioner seeks to withdraw the petition. Petition stands disposed off as withdrawn. As the case is about 20 years old, the trial Court shall expedite the hearing and dispose off the Criminal Case No.1697/PW/1991 as early as possible and preferably by the end of 2011. (J.H. BHATIA,J.)