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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:28372 Court No. - 79 Case :- MATTERS UNDER ARTICLE 227 No. - 14356 of 2024 Petitioner :- Aditya Narayan Singh Respondent :- State Of Up And 9 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sadashiv Tripathi,Shyam Shankar Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The instant petition has been preferred with the following prayer:-
"i) To issue a order or direction directing the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate- Fifth, Court no. 16, Jaunpur to conclude/decide the case no. 371 of 2017 (State versus Indra Pratap Singh) arising out of the Case Crime no. 525 of 2014, under sections 147, 452, 308, 324, 325, 323, 504 & 506 IPC, Police Station - Sarpataha, District Jaunpur pending before him expeditiously within the period fixed by this Court for the same."
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that grievance of petitioner would be sufficiently met in case the aforesaid case be decided expeditiously.
4. Sri Shashi Shekhar Maurya along with Sri Nilesh Kumar Dubey learned counsels appeared on behalf of respondent nos. 2 to 4 submitted that one FIR has already been preferred at the behest of their clients wherein petitioner has been implicated and the same has been registered as Case Crime no. 526 of 2014 but in that matter charge sheet has not been received before learned concerned court till today.
5. Learned counsel for respondent nos. 2 to 4 also submitted that it is the cross-case arising out of same incident but due to non- receiving of the charge sheet before learned court concerned, the same could not be clubbed with each other.
6. Be that as it may, without interfering into the merits of the matter, if there is no other legal impediment, learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate- Fifth, Court no. 16, Jaunpur is hereby
directed to decide the case no. 371 of 2017 (State versus Indra
Pratap Singh) arising out of the Case Crime no. 525 of 2014, under sections 147, 452, 308, 324, 325, 323, 504 & 506 IPC, Police Station - Sarpataha, District Jaunpur, as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of 9 months from the date of presentation of a certified copy of this order before him without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties unless the same is unavoidable but after giving full opportunity of hearing to both sides. It is also made clear that both the parties shall render their full cooperation for expeditious disposal of the said case.
7. However, respondent nos. 2 to 4 will be at liberty to make specific prayer available as per law before learned concerned court for clubbing both the matters if the charge sheet may preferred by concerned Investigating Officer in the instant matter.
8. The instant petition stands disposed of accordingly.
Order Date :- 27.2.2025 Shaswat Digitally signed by :- SHASWAT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad