1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1781 OF 2007 Ahad Khan Wajid Ali Khan...... ... ... Petitioner. Versus State of Maharashtra. ... .... ... Respondent. Mrs. V.V.Thorat for the Petitioner. Mrs. A.S. Pai, APP for the State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and S. B. MHASE, JJ. DATED : 7TH JANUARY, 2008. P.C.: Heard learned Counsel appearing for the parties. 2. This matter appears to be pending in the trial court from 1999. According to the learned Counsel for the petitioner there were only eight witnesses. Four witnesses have been examined and four are yet to be examined. Next date fixed before the trial court is 27th March, 2008. Since the matter is pending for about a decade, we prepone the date before the trial court to 14th January, 2008 and the court shall take up the matter on 14th January, 2008 and the prosecution shall produce all its remaining witnesses. Their statements should be recorded on that day. It is made clear that if all the witnesses are not produced on that date the prosecution 2 evidence shall stand closed. Learned trial Judge shall decide the matter thereafter within one month. 3. The learned trial Judge shall submit a report to the Registrar General of this Court explaining the circumstances which have crept in for keeping this trial pending for almost a decade. The report, as and when received, shall be placed before the learned Chief Justice. 4. The writ petition is disposed of, accordingly. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (S. B. MHASE, J.)