Soni Gupta and Another v. State of U.P. and Another

Court No. - 90 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 41500 of 2023 Applicant :- Soni Gupta And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Dipendra Kumar Tripathi Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Dinesh Pathak,J.

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

¶2The present application has been filed beseeching time bound expeditious disposal of Case No. 1862 of 2020 (Soni Gupta Vs. Anoop Gupta), under Section 125 of CrPC, Police Station Kerakat, District Jaunpur pending in the court of Principal Judge, Family Court, Jaunpur.

¶3It is submitted that the proceeding under Section 125 CrPC (annexure No. 1) filed on behalf of the applicant (wife) is pending since the date of its filing. In the aforesaid matter, Opposite Party No. 2 has already appeared, however, on one pretext or the other, Opposite Party No. 2 is unjustifiably attempting to protract the litigation. It is further submitted that protraction of the aforesaid proceeding is causing oppression and harassment to the present applicants.

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

¶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 court concerned before whom the aforementioned case is pending disposal, to decide the same expeditiously, preferably, within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order.

¶6It is expected that the matter should be decided by a reasoned and speaking order, in accordance with law, after affording opportunity of hearing to the parties concerned without granting unnecessary adjournments to either of the parties.

¶7With the aforesaid direction, present writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 21.11.2023 vinay High Court of Judicature at Allahabad