Salim Khan vs. The State Of Haryana

COURT NO.1

SECTION II-B

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No.3964/2022

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 28-03-2022 in CRM-M No. 33681/2020 passed by the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh)

SALIM KHAN

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

THE STATE OF HARYANA

$Respondent(s)$

(FOR ADMISSION and I.R.)

Date: 13-05-2022 This petition was called on for hearing today.

$CORAM :$

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.K. MAHESHWARI HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE HIMA KOHLI

For Petitioner(s)

Mr. Jasdeep Singh Dhillon, Adv. Mr. Prabhat Kumar Chaurasia, Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta, AOR

For Respondent(s)

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following ORDER

1. Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner.

Taking into consideration the fact that the High Court has $2.$ already directed the trial court to conclude the conclusion of prosecution evidence expeditiously, coupled with the fact that out of 17 witnesses, 9 witnesses have already been examined, we are not Signature Not Verified final ined to interfere with the impugned order passed by the High $\begin{array}{lll}\n\stackrel{11.55.23}{\text{NS}} & \text{C} & \text{curl} & \text{dismissing the regular ball application filed by the}\n\end{array}$ petitioner.

ITEM $NO.19$

3. In view of the above, we direct the trial court to expedite the trial and conclude the same within a period of six months from the date of communication of a copy of this order.

4. In case the trial is not concluded within the period as stipulated above, the petitioner would be entitled to move a fresh application for bail before the trial court.

5. The Special Leave Petition is disposed of on the afore stated terms.

(VISHAL ANAND) (R.S. NARAYANAN) ASTT. REGISTRARcumPS COURT MASTER (NSH)