Mrs. Bhawna Vs State NCT of Delhi — Delhi HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Mrs. Bhawna Vs State NCT of Delhi — Delhi HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

The petition, alongwith the pending application (CRL.M.A. 8189/2025-Exp), was disposed of. Instead of the 30-day direction sought, the Court requested the learned JMFC-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi to make all possible endeavours to dispose of Complaint Case No.623/2024 as expeditiously as possible, having regard to the availability of time and the daily board position, and directed counsel for the parties not to take undue or unnecessary adjournments. Maintainability and merits were not adjudicated.

Issue for consideration

Whether the High Court should direct the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi to dispose of Complaint Case No.623/2024 within a period of 30 days, as prayed by the petitioner. +1 more

Court's answer

Without adverting to the maintainability of the petition or the merits involved therein, the Court requested the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi to make all possible endeavours to dispose of Complaint Case No.623/2024 as expeditiously as possible, however, after taking into consideration the availability of time and the daily position of the board. The specific 30-day timeline sought by the petitioner was not granted.

Ratio / Principle

Learned counsel for the parties were called upon to co-operate with the trial court by not taking undue and/or unnecessary adjournments.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Delhi High Court (Saurabh Banerjee, J.), by order dated 18.03.2025 in W.P.(CRL) 872/2025, disposed of a writ petition in which the petitioner sought a direction to the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi to dispose of Complaint Case No.623/2024 within 30 days. Though the respondent-State contended that the petition was per se not maintainable, the Court, without adverting to maintainability or the merits, requested the trial court to make all possible endeavours to dispose of the complaint as expeditiously as possible, keeping in view the availability of time and the daily position of the board, and directed counsel for the parties to co-operate by not taking undue or unnecessary adjournments. The 30-day timeline sought was not granted; no statute or precedent was cited.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

- W.P.(CRL) 872/2025, CRL.M.A. 8189/2025-Exp

MRS. BHAWNA .....Petitioner

Through: Mr. M. K. Gehlaut, Adv.

versus

STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Rahul Tyagi, ASC for State with Mr. Mathew M. Philip, Mr. Sangeet Sibou and Mr. Aniket Kumar Singh, Advs. alongwith SI Prem Giri, PS: KNK Marg.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SAURABH BANERJEE

O R D E R % 18.03.2025

By virtue of the present petition, the petitioner seeks to direct the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi to dispose of the Complaint Case No.623/2024 within a period of 30 days.

Issue notice.

Mr. Rahul Tyagi, learned ASC appearing for the States accepts notice.

Learned ASC submits that the present petition is, per se , not maintainable.

Without adverting to the maintainability of the present petition and/ or going into the merits involved therein, the concerned Judicial Magistrate

This is a digitally signed order.

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First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi is requested to make all possible endeavours to dispose of the afore-mentioned Complaint Case No.623/2024 as expeditiously as possible, however, after taking into consideration the availability of time and daily position of the board.

Needless to mention, the learned counsel for the parties shall also co-operate with the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-01, Mahila Court, North, Rohini, Delhi by not taking undue and/ or unnecessary adjournments.

In view of the aforesaid, the present petition, alongwith the pending application, is disposed of.

SAURABH BANERJEE, J

MARCH 18, 2025/ bh

This is a digitally signed order.

The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 20/03/2025 at 12:43:32