1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. CRIMINAL APLICATION NO.3194/2009 ( Vasant Champalal Bhallai .vs. State of Mah. ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's orders. and Registrar's orders Mr. C.W. Bonde, Advocate for Applicant. Mrs. K.S. Joshi, APP for Respondent. .... CORAM : P.D. KODE, J. DATED : NOVEMBER 27, 2009 Heard. By the present application, the applicant/accused facing a trial for commission of offence punishable under Section 376 read with 34 of IPC has renewed his prayer for bail. It is the main grievance of the learned counsel of the applicant that application for bail preferred earlier was withdrawn by him on 22.6.2009 in a hope that the trial would be expeditiously completed as the same was then fixed for recording of evidence. It is his grievance that in spite of passage of period of five months, the trial is not yet over. Having regard to the matters stated in the report received from the trial Court, the same supports the submission of the learned APP that the prosecution alone is not responsible for not completion of trial as the counsel for the accused has also sought the adjournments and some of the witnesses required to be 2 examined at the trial being from Bhopal. In these circumstances and having regard to the fact that the evidence is already commenced in the trial and the seriousness of accusation for which the trial is in progress and the material collected by the prosecution in support of them, for serving the ends of justice, the application is marked as disposed of with a direction to the trial Court to complete the trial as expeditiously as possible and in any event on or before 15.2.2010 and sending report of compliance. In the event of the trial being not completed within such a period, liberty to the applicant to pray for a bail. In view of disposal of main application, Criminal Applications (APPP) No. 162/2009 and 265/2009 stand disposed of. JUDGE halwai