1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Criminal Writ Petition No.541/2009 (PIL) [Ramesh Narayanrao Mankar .vrs. High Court of Judicature at Bombay and others] ................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ................................................................................................................................................................... Mr. A.N. Ansari, Advocate h/f Mr. H.D. Dangre, Advocate for the petitioner, Mr. Anand Jaiswal, Advocate for respondent no.1, Mr. N.W. Sambre, Public Prosecutor for respondent nos.2 to 4. Mr. S.P. Bhandarkar, Advocate for the applicants/intervenors. .......... CORAM : A.P. LAVANDE & P.D. KODE, JJ. DATE : JUNE 17, 2010. Heard. The petitioner has filed this petition claiming to be in public interest, seeking direction to the respondents to constitute Special Court and/or to take steps to ensure speedy trial in Regular Criminal Case No.147/2002, State of Maharashtra through CID, Nagpur .vrs. Sunil Kedar and ten others, pending before Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Court No.1, Nagpur. 2 By order dated 5.10.2009, Senior Administrative Judge of this Bench has rejected the prayer of the petitioner to register the petition as Public Interest Litigation. Having perused the nature of the reliefs sought in the petition, we are of the considered opinion that this is not a fit case in which we must entertain the petition by way of Public Interest Litigation at the instance of the petitioner. However, since the petition discloses that Regular Criminal Case No.147/2002 is pending since 2002, we deemed it appropriate to direct respondent nos.2 and 3 to file affidavit and pursuant to that on behalf of the State of Maharashtra affidavit has been filed. The same discloses that the number of old matters are pending for trial before different JMFC Courts in Nagpur. We are not inclined to entertain this petition filed by the petitioner. We deem it appropriate to direct the learned District and Sessions Judge, Nagpur to ensure that old criminal matters pending before different JMFC Courts in Nagpur are disposed of expeditiously and on priority basis and to 3 take appropriate steps in that regard. With the above directions, the petition stands disposed of. Criminal Application (APPW) No.69/2009 In view of disposal of main criminal writ petition, this application does not survive. Hence the application stands disposed of. JUDGE JUDGE Gulande