IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Miscellaneous Application 144 of 2011 (Under Section 482 CrPC) Rohit .…. Petitioner Versus State of Uttarakhand .… Respondent February 8, 2011 HON’BLE PRAFULLA C. PANT, J. Ms. Anjali Noliyal, Advocate, present for the petitioner. Mr. T.C. Agarwal, Addl. GA, present for the State. Urgency application no. 706 of 2011 is allowed. Heard. By means of this petition, moved under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioner has sought direction for expeditious disposal of Criminal Case No. 427/2010 (Old No. 286/2001), State v. Rohit, pending before the Juvenile Justice Board, Haridwar. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner’s case is pending since the year 2001 before the Juvenile Justice Board, Haridwar for his trial in respect of the offences punishable under Section 302/201 IPC, Police Station Laksar. It is further submitted that as many as 92 dates have been fixed in the matter, and still, the trial is not over. Also, attention of this Court is drawn to the fact that the trial of other accused, who are major, has been completed by the Additional Sessions Judge/Ist 2 F.T.C., Haridwar vide his judgment and order dated 14.3.2008, passed in Sessions Trial No. 230 of 2002, and all the co-accused have already been acquitted of the charge of offence punishable under Section 302/34 and 201 IPC. Having considered the submissions of learned Counsel for the parties and after going through the papers on record, this petition under Section 482 CrPC is disposed of with the direction that the Juvenile Justice Board, Haridwar shall dispose of Criminal Case No. 427/2010 (Old No. 286/2001), State v. Rohit, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of six months. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Vacation Judge 8.2.2011 PRABODH