20.8.2026 18 sb CRR 3326 of 2026 Sri Sukanta Mondal & Anr. Vs. The State of West Bengal & Anr. Mr. Indranuj Dutta Ms. Benazir Sk. …for the Petitioners In this application, the petitioners herein have prayed for a direction upon the court below for expeditious disposal of proceeding being G.R. case no. 1515 of 2023, presently pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, 2nd Court, Hooghly. Being aggrieved by the inordinate delay caused in disposal of the said proceeding, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that after charge hearing, the charge was framed against the petitioners on 26.12.2025 and the next date has been fixed on 2nd January, 2027 for evidence of charge-sheeted witnesses. He further submits that such delay by no stretch of imagination can be attributed to the petitioners and total six number of prosecution witnesses are to be examined in the present criminal case and as such, to protect the petitioner’s fundamental right to speedy trial, necessary direction is required to be passed upon the court below. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners, it appears that the prayer made by the petitioners is innocuous and if it is allowed in terms of the prayer made therein, the opposite parties will have no cause to prejudice 2 and as such, the service of copy of application upon the opposite parties is hereby dispensed with. Having considered the submissions made on behalf of the petitioners and that the date for recording evidence has been fixed after one year, I find that the prayer made by the petitioners for preponing the date, is justified and is required to be allowed to secure the ends of justice. In view of above, the instant application being CRR 3326 of 2026 is hereby disposed of with a direction upon the court below to prepone the next date and to fix a date for recording evidence in the month of October, 2026 and thereafter, the court below will make his best effort to conclude the entire proceeding preferably within a period of six months from the preponed date without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties. 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.)