1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH AT NAGPUR CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2758/2007 Shankar Rajaram Uke ..vs.. State of Maharashtra and Bhandara Zilla Sahakar Khade Karmachari Pat Sanstha Ltd., Bhandara -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or Court's or Judge's Orders directions and Registrar's orders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CORAM: R. V. MORE, J. DATED : 27 th June, 2008 1. Heard Mr. Brahme, learned counsel for the applicant, Ms. Wasnik, A.P.P. for non applicant No. 1 and Mr.Parchure, learned counsel for non applicant No. 2. 2. The applicant who is ex Secretary of the Cooperative Society is accused in criminal proceeding initiated under section 409 I.P.C. The Society, simultaneously filed dispute for recovery of the amount vide Dispute No. 348/1989. The dispute under the Co-operative Societies Act was disposed of and the applicant has filed appeal before the Co-operative appellate Court. So far as the criminal proceeding is concerned, the applicant filed application requesting the Magistrate to stay the same during the 2 pendency of the appeal filed by him before the Cooperative Appellate Court. The application came to be rejected by order dated 29.06.2007 and the applicant, thereafter, preferred revision before the Sessions Court, Bhandara which also came to be dismissed by order dated 21.08.2007, which order is impugned in the present criminal application. 3. It is the settled law that the civil as well as criminal proceedings can proceed simultaneously. The criminal case is pending from 1989 i.e. since last 17 years. In that view of the matter, I do not find any illegality or perversity in the impugned order. The revision is, therefore, dismissed. However, in the facts and circumstances of the present case, hearing of Criminal Case No. 10/1989 is expedited. JUDGE kahale