1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION srk(4) CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2401 OF 2010 Bhusising @ Nigro @ Deepaksing @ Chonasing @ Rajusing @ Tank Sardar @ Babubhai s/o Shri Ram Tank ..Applicant. v/s. The State of Maharashtra ..Respondent. .... Mr. Y.S. Shinde, A.P.P. for Respondent. .... CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATE : 07TH JULY, 2010. P.C. 1 Heard the learned A.P.P. 2 The learned A.P.P. has submitted the reports from S.D.P.O. Dahanu and P.I. Manikpur police station. The Applicant was arrested on 12.12. 2006 in Crime No. 98 of 1998 registered with Dahanu police station. Lateron, provisions of MCOCA were applied and he is facing the trial in Case No. 4 of 2007. It appears that some of the accused in that case were arrested in 2005. Thus, the accused persons are in jail for last 4 to 5 years or even more. As per the report, evidence of 12 witnesses is already recorded and four more witnesses are yet to be examined. 2 2 The report from Manikpur police station shows that Special Case No. 2 of 2006 under MCOC Act is pending against the present Applicant. In that case 27 witnesses are already examined and some more witnesses are yet to be examined. 3 In view of the fact that the Applicant is in jail for about four years and other accused are in jail for even longer period. In the interest of justice, the following direction is given hereby: i) The learned Special Judge MCOCA, Thane is hereby directed to expedite the hearing of the Special Case Nos. 4 of 2007, 6 of 2005 and 8 of 2006 arising out of Crime No. 98 of 1998 from Dahanu Police Station and dispose of the same as early as possible and preferably by the end of October, 2010. ii) The learned Special Judge MCOCA, Thane is also hereby directed to expedite the hearing of the Special Case Nos. 2 of 2006 arising out of Crime No. 335 of 2004 from Manikpur Police Station and dispose of the same as early as possible and preferably by the end of October, 2010. 4 Application stands disposed of accordingly. [ J.H. BHATIA, J. ]