Jasveer Singh v. State of U.P. and Another

Court No. - 90 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 40431 of 2023 Applicant :- Jasveer Singh Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Dharmendra Kumar Rajput Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Dinesh Pathak,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record.

¶2The present applicant has invoked the inherent power of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. beseeching the expeditious disposal of Complaint Case No.05 of 2019 (Jasveer Singh vs. Ajay Kumar Yadav), under Section 138 N.I. Act, Police Station Gandhi Park, District Aligarh, pending in the court of learned Additional Court, Aligarh.

¶3It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that the the applicant has moved an application dated 05.01.2019 owing to dishonour of cheque under Section 138 of N.I. Act. It is further submitted that statutory period for deciding the instant application as enunciated under Section 143 (3) of the N.I. Act has already been expired. Learned Magistrate has issued process by order dated 07.03.2019. Opposite party no.2 is already appeared and enlarged on bail. Since then, matter is pending protected without any fruitful steps being taken by the court concerned to get the same decided at an early date.

¶4Learned AGA has no objection in case a direction is issued for early disposal of the aforesaid matter.

¶5In this conspectus, as above, no useful purpose would be served to keep this matter pending, therefore, this Court deems it appropriate to finally dispose of the present application, without making any observation on the merits of the case as mentioned in the present application, with a direction to learned Additional Court, Aligarh before whom the aforementioned case is pending consideration to decide the same expeditiously, preferably, within a period of six months, in accordance with law, from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order.

¶6With the aforesaid direction, present application is disposed of. Order Date :- 2.11.2023/Jitendra High Court of Judicature at Allahabad