IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46175 of 2008 1. PARMATMA RAUT 2. BADRI MIYA 3. JUMADDIN MIYA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 18.12.2008 Heard Sri Sanjeev Kumar, Advocate for the petitioners and Sri D. Mehta, APP for the State. This could be the working of the Fast Track Courts in our State. The case, which was registered in the year, 1981, was running on evidence for last six years when the petitioners disappeared from the trial and during those years only 7 witnesses could be examined by the Judges, who presided over the court before whom the case, i.e., Sessions Trial No. 212 of 1983 was pending. The learned Judge has not mentioned as to from which date he was seized with the trial of above noted case and how many more witnesses are yet to be examined, but has justified the pendency by recording the above fact of examination of 7 witnesses during the period of six years I do not want to say anything on the pendency of the case because I direct the Joint Registrar, Monitoring Cell, F.T.C. to seek a full fledged report and place the same with the present record before the appropriate authority. - 2 - Under the facts that after remaining in attendance for six years and during that course 7 witnesses were examined and I find that still the petitioner were not handed out justice, it may not be an incident of being negligent or disrespectful to the court’s proceeding if one disappeared from the trial. Let the three petitioners namely, Parmatma Raut, Badri Miya and Jumaddin Miya be released from custody on furnishing a bond of Rs.3,000/- (three thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Sessions Judge F.T.C. V, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Sessions Trial No. 212 of 1983 arising out of Sikta P.S. Case No. 45 of 1981. I propose to direct the court below to dispose of Sessions Trial No. 212 of 1983 in the first two quarters of the year, 2009. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)