IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Crl. Misc. Application (C-482) No. 196 of 2011 Smt. Santosh W/o Mahesh Kumar R/o T-47D, Railway Colony Thana Kotwali Haridwar. ...…………. Petitioner Versus 1. State of Uttarakhand through Secretary Home, Dehradun. 2. Jai Chand Nagar, Magistrate City Haridwar. ...…………. Respondents Mr. K.S. Verma, Advocate, present for the petitioner. Mr. T.C. Aggarwal, Addl. Govt. Advocate, present for the State. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. Heard. 2) By means of this petition, moved under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short Cr.P.C.), the petitioner has sought quashing of the proceedings of Criminal Case No. 873 of 2010 (old No. 1430 of 2000, thereafter No. 202 of 2004, and thereafter No. 551 of 2005), State Vs. Devendra Kumar and others, pending in the court of II Addl. Civil Judge (Junior Division) / Judicial Magistrate, Haridwar, relating to offences punishable under Section 342, 323 of I.P.C. and one under Section 41 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986. 2 3) Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that though in the criminal case new number is registered, but the trial is pending since the year 2000, as such, the poor petitioner, a woman, is being made to suffer for last ten years, as the dates are being fixed one after another in the trial. It is further pointed out that petitioner has no role in commission of crime. As far as the innocence of the petitioner is concerned, the same cannot be examined by this court, in its jurisdiction under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. It is for the trial court to examine the same. However, considering the nature of the offence and the long period of ten years for which the poor petitioner is being made to suffer on account of pendency of the trial, this petition deserves to be disposed of with the direction to the trial court to conclude the trial expeditiously. 4) Therefore, the petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is disposed of summarily directing the trial court to conclude the trial as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of six months. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt. March 01, 2011. H. Negi