IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1681 of 2008 SANJAY PASWAN Versus STATE OF BIHAR - - - - 5. 12.9.2008 The Additional Sessions Judge, 2nd, Hilsa(Nalanda) reports that he could not dispose of the case( Sessions Trial No. 275 of 2002) in fourth months’ time and, as such, requires yet another six months for examination of two witnesses, i.e., the I.O. and the Doctor of the case. The period of four months was set down by the Officer himself by his letter No. 40 dated 5.2.2008 and this Court by its order dated 10.3.2008 had expected that the Officer would be able to dispose of the case in next four months. All the public witnesses have been examined. This Court finds itself at a loss as to how it could deal with the situation that an Officer who fixed a timeframe for himself for disposing of the case has already jumped that timeframe and is again seeking a timeframe of six months for examination of the two more witnesses. The case is of the year 2000 and the petitioner is in custody since April, 2 2000. The public witnesses, as stated above, have all been exhausted. The earlier report fixing four months time was dated 5.2.2008 and after about seven months of that report the court is fixing six months’ time again for examination of two witnesses. The Officer appears quite an insensitive one and does not care for his own word being jumped. I could direct the office to direct the court below to dispose of the case in another two months time from the date of receipt/production of a copy of the present order. Kanth ( Dharnidhar Jha, J.)