IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.25653 of 2010 MD.SARFARAZ @ SARFRAZ, son of Mustaque Quadri, resident of village Rampur Kodar Katti, P.S. Araria, District Araria Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 12.10.2010 Heard Mr. Bikramdeo Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the State. The prayer for bail of the petitioner was earlier rejected on merits by an order dated 15.12.2009 in Cr.Misc.No. 42780/2009 with a direction to the trial court to expedite the trial of the petitioner. A report of the trial court dated 25th August, 2010 at Flag ‘X’ would go to show that after the charges were framed for offence under sections 395, 397 and 412 of the Indian Penal Code on 31.3.2010 four prosecution witnesses including the informant have already been examined and further progress in the trial could not be made on account of unfortunate death of the Presiding Officer. That being so, neither the prosecution nor the defence can be faulted for this delay in conclusion of the trial. 2 This Court, accordingly, would direct the District and Sessions Judge, Purnia to ensure that S.Tr.No. 184/2010 arising out of Araria P.S.Case No. 425/2009 is made over to some other court for its expeditious disposal preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observation, this application is dismissed. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/