IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellanious No.34557 of 2008 BUTAN SURHI @ YOGENDRA PRASAD & ANR - Petitioners Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ANR - Opposite Parties -------------- 2 11.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. Petitioners are aggrieved by the order dated 27.01.1994 by which cognizance has been taken in the Spl. Case No. 69 of 1988. Counsel for the petitioners submits that the case is pending for 21 years. The main accused persons are dead. There is hardly any evidence as far as these petitioners are concerned. This case ought to be quashed on the ground of delay and latches. Let this order may be brought to the notice of the Court below so that steps may be taken to expedite the case or close the case because of no evidence. The matter can be raised by the petitioner at the appropriate stage of the case. I not inclined to intervene in the matter at present. The application thus disposed of. Let the case be decided expeditiously so that the petitioner is not harassed unnecessarily. Prakash ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)