In an application under Section 482 CrPC seeking a time-bound disposal order for a pending trial in a corruption case, the court rejected the plea. It held that courts should not fix bound schedules as it creates a preferential class of litigants, observing that the current case is being diligently proceeded.
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Neutral Citation No. - 2024:AHC:134460
Court No. - 64
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 27288 of 2024
Applicant :- Suresh Kumar Yadav Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ras Bihari Pandey,Suresh Chand Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Samit Gopal,J.
4. Learned State counsel has also been heard.
that the trial court is diligently proceeding in the matter. Time and again, this Court and the Apex Court has reminded that the Courts should not fix time bound schedule for a disposal of cases before any Court and if the same is allowed it places a class of litigant in a preferential category. Reference hereby is made to the cases decided by a Division Bench of this Court being Ali Shad Usmani and others vs. Ali Isteba and others: (2015) 2 ADJ 250 and further of the Apex Court in the cases of Shaikh Uzma Feroz Hussain Vs. State of Maharastra in Writ Petition (Crl.) No.587 of 2023 decided on 10.11.2023, M Gopalakrishnan & others Vs. Pasumpon Muthuramalingam & another in S.L.P (Crl.) Diary No(s). 30839 of 2021 decided on 11.3.2022.
Order Date :- 21.8.2024 M. ARIF
(Samit Gopal, J.)
Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD ARIF High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the applicant deserves a direction for time-bound disposal of trial in a pending corruption case.
1 provisions across 1 enactments
Suresh Kumar Yadav
State of U.P.
Samit Gopal
Mohammad Arif
As recorded by the court registry
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