IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. M. No.21860-M of 2009 Date of Decision:25.10.2010 John D-Costa @ Bila .... Petitioner Versus The State of Punjab and another .... Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. K.S. Pannu, D.A.G. Punjab. Mr. A.P.S. Randhawa, Advocate for respondent No.2. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J.(Oral) Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State on instructions from ASI Balwinder Singh has pointed out that the prosecution evidence is complete. No one was present on behalf of the petitioner on 29.3.2010 when the matter was taken up and in the interest of justice, case was adjourned to 14.5.2010. On 14.5.2010, there was a written request for an adjournment on behalf of the counsel for the petitioner and the case was adjourned to 12.8.2010. On 12.8.2010, no one was present on behalf of the petitioner and the following order was passed: “ None has appeared on behalf of the petitioner. In the interest of justice, adjourned to 25.10.2010. However, it is made clear that if no one put in appearance on behalf of the petitioner on the next date of hearing, the petition shall be dismissed for non prosecution.” Today also no one is present on behalf of the petitioner. Accordingly, the present petition is dismissed for non prosecution. 25.10.2010 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE