21.09.2026 Sl. No.04. D/L. Mithun. Ct.No.29. CRR/2513/2026 Sri Lalit Kumar Poddar Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Satadru Lahiri, Mr. Niladri Banerjee, Mr. D. Ghosh …for the petitioner Mr. Aditya Mondal, Mr. Dhruv Dwivedi, Mr. Rahul Samadder …for opposite party no.3 & 4. In this application, the petitioner has prayed for expeditious disposal of trial in Complaint Case No.CS/3629/2013 under Sections 138/141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, presently pending before learned Judicial Magistrate, 10th Court, Alipore. Being aggrieved by the aforesaid proceeding, learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner initiated the said proceeding on 23rd May, 2013 and the learned Trial Court issued process against the accused persons on 15th January, 2014. Thereafter, accused persons appeared on 26th February, 2014 and since then the matter is pending without any further development. The petitioner, therefore, prays for appropriate direction upon the Court below for expeditious disposal of the said proceeding. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party submits that the opposite party herein wants to surrender before the Court below and, therefore, a liberty may be given to him. 2 Having heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the opposite party, it appears that the prayer made by the petitioner is justified in view of the fact that a proceeding under N.I.Act which is required to be disposed of within a time limit is pending for more than 13 years. In such view of the matter, the instant application being CRR 2513 of 2026 is hereby disposed of by giving liberty to the opposite party to surrender before the Court below within a period of two weeks and in the event of such surrender, the Court below will dispose of his prayer in accordance with law without being influenced by any observation made herein. The Court below is further directed that upon such surrender by the opposite party, he will make his best endeavour to conclude the trial as expeditiously as possible without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties and he will make his best effort to conclude the entire proceeding preferably within a period of six months from the next date of hearing. In case, the opposite party does not surrender before the Court below within the aforesaid period, the Trial Court will be at liberty to take appropriate steps against the opposite party as provided under Sections 82/83 of the Cr.P.C.read with section 84/85 of BNSS in order to secure attendance of the opposite party. 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. )