RAMESH CHANDRA SRIVASTAVA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) V. N. Mehrotra, J. In these petitions under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed by the applicant Ramesh Chandra Srivastava, prayer has been made for quashing the proceedings in criminal cases Nos. 4514, 4515, 4516 and 4517 of 1990 under Sections 120-B, 465, 467,468,471 and 511 I. P. C. State v. V. D. Tiwari, and others pending in the court of metropolitan Magistrate Raipurwa, Kanpur Nagar.

(2.) AS similar assertions has been made in all these cases, they shall be heard together and shall be disposed of by this Judgment.

(3.) IN this case it can not be denied that the F. I. R. has filed in 1974 L and the charge sheet was submitted by the police on 22. 2. 1977. The trial is pending since that date. It can also be stated that the statement of only on witness has been partly recorded during this entire period. The order sheet shows that for on the other reasons, the case has been adjourned and very large number of dates. It is true that one of the co-accused has filed a writ petition before this court and this court had granted Mate copy but from the order sheet it appears that the stay order was continued for about two years only. The order sheet also shows that no blame can be put on the present applicant for delaying the proceeding. He remained present in court and always tried to get the matter decided at the earliest.