31.08.2026 Sl. No.856. D/L. Mithun. Ct.No.29. CRR/3102/2026 Tirupati Overseas Corporation Vs. Rekha Kumari Pandey Mr. Tapas Dutta, Mr. Biswajit Naha …for the petitioner The petitioner/complainant is aggrieved with the inordinate delay in disposal of the proceeding being Complaint Case No.AC/329/2019,presently pending before learned Judicial Magistrate, 8th Court, Alipore. Being aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the inordinate delay caused in disposal of the said proceeding, learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the said proceeding under Section 138 of the N.I.Act was initiated in the year 2019. Since then 7 years have already passed but not a single witness has been examined as yet and the Court is fixing date day after day for recording evidence. Therefore, he prayed for necessary direction upon the Court below. 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 in the application, the opposite party will have no cause to prejudice and, as such, service of copy of application upon the opposite party is dispensed with. Having considered submission made on behalf of the petitioner, the instant application being CRR 3102 of 2026 is 2 hereby disposed of with a direction upon the Court below to prepone the next date of hearing and to fix a date in the month of November, 2026 and thereafter he will make his best effort to conclude the entire proceeding preferably within a period of six months from the preponed date. Parties to act on a server copy of this order duly collected from the official website of the Hon’ble High Court, Calcutta. ( Dr. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J. )