IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.8251 of 2009 KRISHNA PASWAN Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 6 13.1.2010 Having perused the explanation dated 2.1.2010 furnished by Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Sub-Judge, Civil Court Ara, Bhojpur, this Court is satisfied that the action taken by the said judicial officer in compliance of the order of this Court dated 5.5.2008 in Cr. Misc. No. 213 of 2008 was wholly unsatisfactory. By the said order, this Court had directed the trial court to conclude the trial within a period of nine months and even then no effective steps were taken by him during the period the said case remained in his Court i.e. up to 10.2.2009. The trial in question related to embezzlement of government fund and public exchequer and almost all the witnesses were official witnesses and yet he had done nothing meaningful beyond a mere lip service for securing attendance of prosecution witnesses as a result whereof the trial had remained pending till it was transferred to another court under the orders of District and Sessions Judge, Bhojpur at Ara noticing that 2 nothing tangible was done by him in a period of nine months. The report of District Judge dated 25.11.2009 in fact would go to show that no initiative was taken by Mr. Singh as was later on taken by Mr. Vivek Bharadwaj, Judicial Magistrate, Arrah. In that view of the matter, let the records of this case be placed before the Hon’ble Inspecting Judge of Bhojpur district for considering the desirability of taking appropriate action against Mr. Sanjai Kumar Singh, Subjudge, Civil Court, Ara. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)