HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.12218 of 2011 ORDER: Petitioner approached this Court with a prayer to call for the records pertaining to the impugned docket order dated 29.11.2011 in C.C.No.86 of 2011 (Old C.C.No.173 of 2010) on the ﬁle of XII Special Magistrate, Secunderabad, and quash the same. Heard. The petitioner is arrayed as an accused in the aforesaid case. The 1st respondent herein is the complainant who ﬁled the present private complaint against the petitioner herein for the oﬀence punishable under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the complainant was called absent before the trial Court on as many as six occasions and the learned trial Magistrate has adjourned the matter without assigning any reasons. He further submitted that as per Section 143 (2) of the Negotiable Instruments Act, the case has to be tried on day to-day basis or as expeditiously as possible, but in the case on hand, when the complainant was continuously absent for six times, the learned trial Magistrate ought to have dismissed the complaint instead of adjourning the matter. On a perusal of the entire material placed on record, it is evident that both the complainant as well as the accused and also the advocates practicing in the Courts have not cooperated the Court. Considering the above circumstances and also the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner, the accused and the complainant are directed to co-operate the trial Court in disposing the case in C.C.No.86 of 2011 and the trial Court is directed to dispose of the said case within three months from today, if possible by conducting the trial on day-to-day basis. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed of. The miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. ______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 29th November, 2011 v v