IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition (M/S) No. 313 of 2011 Ram Rati Yadav. … Petitioner. Versus Raj Kumar Jain S/O Late Sagar Chand Jain and others. … Respondents. Mr. B.S.Adhikari, Advocate, learned counsel for the petitioner. Date February 23, 2011. Hon’ble B.S.Verma, J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and perused the record. This writ petition has been preferred for a direction to the court below to expedite the proceeding of Civil Appeal No. 40 of 2005 Smt. Ram Rati Yadav Vs. Sagar Chand Jain and others pending in the court of Additional District Judge 1st F.T.C. Dehradun within a time bound period. A perusal of the record shows that the petitioner had filed Civil Appeal No. 40 of 2005 against the judgment and decree dated 4-5-2005 whereby the O.S. No. 217 of 1992 filed by the late husband of the petitioner was dismissed. The appeal filed by the petitioner is pending since the year 2005. Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that the ends of justice would be served if a direction is issued to the court concerned to decide the said appeal within a time bound period. Prayer is innocuous. The Additional District Judge, 1st F.T.C. Dehradun is directed to decide the Civil Appeal No. 40 of 2005 Smt. Ram Rati Yadav Vs. Sagar Chand Jain and others, pending in that court, on merits expeditiously, preferably within a period of nine months from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of finally. (B.S.Verma, J.) RCP