16.7.2026 3 sb CRR 1152 of 2026 Prasenjit Saha Vs. The State of West Bengal Mr. Aniket Mitra …for the Petitioner In this application, the petitioner herein has prayed for a direction upon the court below for expeditious disposal of G.R. case no. 2185 of 2026 under Sections 406/419/420/ 354B/325/120B/34 of the IPC, presently pending before the Learned Judicial Magistrate, 4th Court, Hooghly. Being aggrieved by the inordinate delay caused in disposal of the aforesaid proceeding, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the abovementioned criminal case was started on 27th October, 2016 and after completion of investigation, police submitted charge-sheet on 31st January, 2017. Thereafter, the charge was framed on 16th May, 2018 but since then, only two witnesses have been examined so far out of seven charge-sheeted witnesses and the proceeding has been stalled for a considerable period of time as the court below has given indulgence in granting accommodation one after another to the parties. He further submits that the petitioner earlier preferred an application being CRR 3758 of 2022 with a prayer for expeditious disposal of the said criminal proceeding and this Hon’ble Court by an order dated 31st 2 August, 2023 directed the Trial Court to conclude the trial within a reasonable period of time. At the time of filing of the said earlier application, status of trial was similar and no endeavour has been made by the court below to conclude the trial within a reasonable period of time in compliance with the Hon’ble Court’s earlier order. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner, it appears that the prayer made by the petitioner is innocuous and if it is allowed in terms of the prayer made therein, the opposite party/State will have no cause to prejudice and as such, the service of copy of application upon the opposite party/State is hereby dispensed with. Having considered the submissions made on behalf of the petitioner and also considering the fact that the trial of the said proceeding has been stalled for about four years without any progress and that in spite of a specific direction passed by this Hon’ble court earlier, the Trial court has not taken any endeavour to conclude the trial within the shortest period of time, I find that the prayer made by the petitioner is justified and required to be allowed to secure the ends of justice. In view of above, the instant application being CRR 1152 of 2026 is hereby disposed of with a direction upon the court below to make every endeavour for expeditious disposal of proceeding being G.R. case no. 2185 of 2026 under Sections 406/419/420/ 354B/325/120B/34 of the IPC, presently pending before the Learned Judicial 3 Magistrate, 4th Court, Hooghly and to make his best effort to conclude the entire proceeding within a period of three months from the next date of hearing. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities. (Dr. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J.)