* 1 * Cri.Appln. 147.2010 25.2.2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.147 OF 2010 Prakash Raghunath Shenai & anr. .......Applicants V/S. State of Maharashtra .........Respondent * * * * * * Applicant-Mr. Prakash Shenai in person. Mr. P.S. Hingorani, APP for the State-respondent. Coram : Smt. R.P. SondurBaldota, J. 25th February, 2011. P.C. : 1. This application is for transfer of criminal proceedings being Case No. 146/S/1994, 29/C/1996, 54/C/1997 and 82/SW/2009 to the Court of 19th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Esplanade or to any other Courts situate in the area of Mumbai and for expeditious hearing of the trials in the four cases. The application does not make out any case for transfer of the proceedings. It is also not the case of any inconvenience to the applicants because three of the cases are pending in 31st Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, * 2 * Cri.Appln. 147.2010 25.2.2011 Vikhroli, Mumbai and the fourth case is in 49th Metropolitan Magistrate, Court, Vikhroli. The two court halls i.e. 31st and 49th are the adjoining court-halls. Hence, the application for transfer cannot be granted. 2. As regards expeditious hearing of the proceedings, the applicant has mentioned in the application itself, that hearing of the proceedings has already been expedited. In that case, no further order need be passed in that regard, except, giving directions to the learned Metropolitan Magistrate’s that they should take up the trials in the four cases in real earnest and dispose the same off within the time granted. It may not be out of place to mention here that in the event the learned Magistrate is unable to dispose off the matter within the time granted to them, the application for extension of time is required to be moved by them and not by the litigant. In that application, he is expected to give details of how the matter has travelled before him. With these observations, the application is disposed off. [Smt. R.P. SondurBaldota, J]