IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.3501 of 2009 1. NAGENDRA RAI S/O SHIBU RAI 2. JOGENDRA RAI 3. RAGHUNATH RAI 4. BAIDYANATH RAI 5. RAJENDRA RAI SERIAL NO. 2 TO 5 ARE S/O SHIBU RAI 6. BHOLA MISHRA S/O KANT LAL MISHRA 7. MITHILESH MISHRA S/O KISHORI MISHRA 8. MUNAKA SAH S/O NANDI SAH 9. SINGESHWAR RAI S/O NANHIPAR RAI 10. RAM CHANDRA RAI S/O LAXMI RAI Versus 1. STATE OF BIHAR 2. MANOHAR MISHRA S/O JUGESHWAR MISHRA ----------- 2. 02.08.2010 The petitioners seek quashing of the entire proceedings of Sessions Trial No. 133 of 85 arising out of Mahua P.S. Case No. 12 (i) of 1982 instituted for offences 436/149 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before the Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. III Vaishali at Hajipur. The case of the prosecution was that in 1982 seventeen named accused persons forcibly ploughed the land of the informant and set fire to the thatched house standing in front of the residential house of the informant. In due course charge sheet was submitted and cognizance was taken and case was committed to the court of sessions in 1985 numbered as Sessions Trial No. 133 of 1985. From the - 2 - documents annexed charges appear to have been framed on 3.4.1987 for the occurrence of 17.1.1982 but till date even after 27 years no progress has taken place in the trial. The submission of the counsel is that even the records of the case had gone missing on account of which the petitioners are facing the misery of a protracted trial the end of which is no where in sight Considering the same, this application is allowed and the entire proceedings of Sessions Trial No. 133 of 85 arising out of Mahua P.S. Case No. 12 (i) of 1982 instituted for offences 436/149 of the Indian Penal Code, pending before the Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. III Vaishali at Hajipur, is hereby quashed. Fahad. (Anjana Prakash, J)