Aijaz Ahmad Wani vs Md Altaf Naikoo on 23 January, 2025

Jammu & Kashmir High Court – Srinagar Bench

Aijaz Ahmad Wani vs Md Altaf Naikoo on 23 January, 2025

                                                                                 Serial No. 13
                                                                           Supplementary-1 Cause List

                      HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH
                                     AT SRINAGAR
                                             CM (M) No. 25/2025
                                              CM No. 273/2025
           Aijaz Ahmad Wani
                                                                             ... Petitioner(s)
                                                Through: -
                                      Mr Tawfiq H. Khawaja, Advocate.
                                                      V/s
           Md Altaf Naikoo
                                                                           ... Respondent(s)

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR JUSTICE RAJESH SEKHRI, JUDGE.

(ORDER)
23.01.2025
Petitioner has invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of this
Court in terms of Article 227 of the Constitution of India for the issuance of
an innocuous command to the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class,
Shopian (for short “the Trial Court”) to decide the Complaint preferred by
him under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 and 420
RPC within a reasonable time frame.

The short grievance of the Petitioner is that he preferred the
aforesaid Complaint in the year 2019 and the Trial Court has proceeded at a
snail’s pace, inasmuch as, till date, only two witnesses of the Complainant/
Petitioner herein have been recorded by the Trial Court.

Having regard to the limited nature of controversy involved in
the matter, the present Petition is admitted to hearing and is disposed of at
the threshold with a direction to the Trial Court to conclude the trial
expeditiously, preferably within a period of six months from the date a copy
of this Order is made available to it.

Petition is, accordingly, disposed of, along with the connected
CM.

(RAJESH SEKHRI)
JUDGE
SRINAGAR
January 23rd, 2025
“TAHIR”

Tahir Manzoor Bhat
I attest to the accuracy and
authenticity of this
document