1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE Criminal Writ Petition No.1634 of 2007 Vilas Tukaram Bhosale Petitioner Vs. State of Maharashtra Respondent Mr.A.S.Khandeparkar i/b. Khandeparkar & Associates for petitioner. Mr.D.P.Adsule, APP for State. CORAM: B.H.MARLAPALLE, J. August 31, 2007. P.C. . Heard Mr.Khandeparkar, the learned counsel for the petitioner who was in the employment of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation as a Typist at the relevant time and he is facing prosecution in RCC No. 397 of 2004. As per Mr.Khandeparkar the petitioner has filed an application for discharge in the said complaint sometimes in the month of October 2004 and during the last about three years the said application still remains pending on the file of the trial Court without any decision. He is, therefore, praying for directions to hear and decide the discharge application expeditiously. . Hence it is directed that in case the 2 discharge application filed by the petitioner in RCC No.397 of 2004 (now re-numbered as RCC No.311 of 2005) is still pending on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Pune, the same be heard and decided as per law as expeditiously as possible and preferably by 31st December 2007. . Petition is disposed off in terms of the above directions. (B.H.MARL