ITEM NO.4 COURT NO.12 SECTION II-B
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 1232/2024
(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 30-11-2023 in CRM-M-60054/2022 passed by the High Court Of Punjab & Haryana At Chandigarh)
BALJIT SINGH @ BABBU Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF PUNJAB Respondent(s)
(IA No.21252/2024-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.21254/2024-EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. )
Date : 01-03-2024 This petition was called on for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE B.V. NAGARATHNA
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
For Petitioner(s) Mr. Ashok Giri, Adv.
Mr. Prabhakar Tewari, Adv.
Mr. Maulana Mohd., Adv.
Mr. Nawaz Khan, Adv.
Mr. Mohit Giri, Adv.
Ms. Ruchi Gupta, AOR

For Respondent(s) Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR
Ms. Princy Sharma, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
We have heard learned counsel for the parties.
Learned counsel for the respondent-State submitted that the petitioner has criminal antecedents inasmuch as, although, in two cases the petitioner has been acquitted there are two other cases pending as against him. In the present case, out of 23 witnesses, 11 witnesses have been examined and 11 witnesses have been dropped and only one witness has to be examined. That if this Court is to issue a direction to the Trial Court that the entire trial should be concluded within a time frame, at this stage, it may not be proper to release the petitioner on bail.
By way of response learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner himself surrendered before the Police and he was not in fact arrested as such and that in two other cases the petitioner has been acquitted from all charges and therefore he may be granted bail as he is in custody for about one year and seven months.

Since only one more witness has to be examined on behalf of the prosecution and the petitioner could let in his evidence, if any, we find that the trial could be concluded within a period of four months from today.
Needless to observe that the prosecution as well as the petitioner shall cooperate with the Trial Court for expeditious disposal of the trial.
In the circumstances, this special leave petition is disposed of reserving liberty to the petitioner to move for bail in the event trial is not concluded within a period of four months from today.

Pending application, if any, stands disposed of.
(RASHMI DHYANI PANT) (MALEKAR NAGARAJ)
COURT MASTER (SH) COURT MASTER (NSH)