:1: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.785 OF 2004 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.785 OF 2004 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.785 OF 2004 Nizamuddin Abdul Rauf Khan ...Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Shri. H.H.Panda with Shri. Ditendra Mishra for the Applicant. Ms.R.M.Gadhvi A.P.P. for the Respondent. CORAM : A. S. OKA, J. CORAM : A. S. OKA, J. CORAM : A. S. OKA, J. DATED : JUNE 30, 2005. DATED : JUNE 30, 2005. DATED : JUNE 30, 2005. P.C.: P.C.: P.C.: 1. While disposing of this Application by Order dated 10th March, 2004, this Court directed the learned Special Judge to conclude the trial within a period of nine months from the date of communication of the order. By further order dated 31st December, 2004 this Court extended the time for disposal of the case till 30th June, 2005. Today the matter is placed on Board on the basis of report dated 29th June, 2005 submitted by the learned Special Judge under the M.C.O.C. Act, 1999 requesting for extending the time for disposal of the case. 2. None appears for the Applicant. I have perused the report. The report discloses that the learned Special Judge is busy with the trial of the Best :2: Bakery case. He has set out that the Apex Court has granted time till 30th September, 2005 for conclusion of the trial. He has stated in the report that in the said case he has recorded evidence running into more than three thousand type-written pages and more than four hundred documents have been tenered in the evidence. He has stated that as per the directions of the Apex Court, he is required to proceed with the said trial on day to day basis. He has set out other difficulties in taking up the trial of the M.C.O.C. Special Case No.16 of 2001. 3. In view of what is stated in the report, the request made by the learned Special Judge deserves to be accepted. Accordingly, the time for disposal of the case is extended till 31st December, 2005. JUDGE JUDGE JUDGE