IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application (C482) No.1 59 of 2011 Lokanand Mamgain S/o Late Hariram Mamgain R/o Village Bhagwanpur, P/o Rajawala, P.S. Sahaspur, District Dehradun …..…Petitioner Versus Mukesh Bhatt S/o Late Rajendra Prasad Bhatt R/o Village Bhauwala P.O. Bhauwala, P.S. Sahaspur District Dehradun ……….Respondent Shri Pawan Mishra, Advocate, present for the petitioner. Hon'ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. By means of this petition moved under section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short Cr.P.C.) the petitioner has sought a direction to the trial court that it should decide the criminal case no. 640 of 2010, Lokanand Mamgain vs. Mukesh Bhatt relating to offence punishable under section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Vikasnagar, expeditiously. 2 2. Heard. 3. Sub-Section (3) of section 143 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, provides that every trial shall be conducted as expeditiously as possible, and an endeavor shall be made to conclude the trial within six months from the date of filing of the complaint. The complaint in question is pending since February 2010. 4. Therefore, this petition under section 482 of Cr.P.C., is disposed of summarily with the direction to the trial court to decide the aforesaid criminal complaint as expeditiously as possible keeping in mind spirit contained in section 143 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. (Prafulla C. Pant,J) Parul 15.02.2011