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SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
C528 No.478 of 2025 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J.
Mr. Susheel Kumar, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. Gaurav Singh, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. The prayer made in this C528 application is to direct the Court below to expedite the proceedings of Complaint No.917 of 2022, Vinay Kumar vs. Vijay Chaudhary, under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, (for short “The Act, 1881”), pending in the court of learned ACJM, Roorkee, District Haridwar and to decide the case as per the provisions of Section 143(c) of the Act, 1881.
3. Of-late, the Apex Court in the case of ‘Sangram Sadashiv Suryavanshi v. State of Maharashtra’ (Criminal Appeal No.4758 of 2024 decided on 25.11.2024 [2024 INSC 899]) has held that Constitutional courts may issue directions for the time-bound disposal of cases only in exceptional circumstances. The issue of prioritizing the disposal of cases should be best left to the decision of the courts concerned where the cases are pending.
4. In view of the aforesaid legal authority, the Court finds that the present case does not fall within the category of ‘exceptional circumstances’ as the case is only of the year 2022.
5. Accordingly, C528 application is dismissed.
6. Pending application if any, stands disposed of.
(Pankaj Purohit, J.)
17.04.2025 AK