HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 529 BNSS No. - 4163 of 2026 Court No. - 78 HON'BLE DR. AJAY KUMAR-II, J. 1. Heard Mr. Arvind Kumar, learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The present application under Section 529 of BNSS has been filed by the applicant with a prayer to direct the Court of Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division)-01, Kanpur Nagar to decide the Complaint Case No. 11001 of 2018 (Gulnaz Bano vs. Mohd. Kamil and others), under Section 12 Domestic Violence Act, Polic Station Colonelganj, District Kanpur Nagar, pending before him, within stipulated period fixed by this Court. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the proceedings before the Court concerned be directed to be concluded in a time-bound manner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that in this case, a complaint under Section 12 of Domestic Violence Act was filed before the trial Court on 24.02.2018, which complaint is still pending and has not been decided till date. Therefore, he requested that a direction to learned trial Court be issued to decide the aforesaid application within a stipulated period of time. 4. Learned A.G.A. has no objection in this regard if the Court below is not already overloaded with huge pendency of such cases. 5. Hon'ble Apex Court in Shaikh Uzma Feroz Hussain vs. State of Maharashtra in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 587 of 2023 has observed that every High Court and every Court in the country has a huge pendency, the constitutional Court should avoid temptation of fixing a time bound schedule for disposal of any case before any Court unless the situation is extraordinary. 6. Hon'ble Apex Court in High Court Bar Association, Allahabad vs. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Arvind Kumar, Pravin Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Gulnaz Bano .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 6 Others .....Opposite Party(s) State of U.P. and others, (2024) 6 SCC 267 has observed in paragraph 42, which is reproduced as under:- "Constitutional Courts should not normally fix a time-bound schedule for disposal of cases pending in any Court. The pattern of pendecny of various categories of cases pending in every Court, including High Courts, is different. The situation at the grassroots level is better known to the judges of the concerned Courts. Therefore, the issue of giving out-of-turn priority to certain cases should be best left to the concerned Courts. The orders fixing the outer limit for the disposal of cases should be passed only in exceptional circumstances to meet extraordinary situations." 7. Thus, law as far as issuance of a direction for time-bound/expeditious disposal has already been well settled that only when an exceptional circumstance is made out, a direction for time-bound/expeditious disposal of such a case can be issued not otherwise. 8. Learned counsel for the applicant has failed to make out any exceptional circumstance to issue direction for time-bound/expeditious disposal of case, at this stage. Accordingly, the relief sought by way of present application is hereby refused. 9. Considering the nature of prayer made by learned counsel for the applicant, the interest of justice would be served, in the event, the applicant applies before the Court concerned for expeditious disposal of above mentioned case. Therefore, the applicant is given liberty to move appropriate application before trial Court concerned for bringing out all such facts, which are necessary for expeditious disposal of her case within two weeks from today and in case, such an application is moved, the trial Court shall decide the same within six weeks from the date of filing of such application. If, trial Court comes to the conclusion that the case for expeditious disposal is made out, then in that eventuality, it shall decide the same as expeditiously as possible within a reasonable period. 10. It is also provided that in the event there is any legal impediment before the Court concerned in disposal of the case, then the Court concerned shall pass an appropriate order disclosing the legal impediment as to why the proceedings of the above mentioned case cannot be proceeded with. 11. With the aforesaid observations/directions, the present application is disposed of. September 9, 2026 Monika NA529 No. 4163 of 2026 2 (Dr. Ajay Kumar-II,J.) Digitally signed by :- MONIKA KESARWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad