HC directs special court to dispose of case in 3 months

The Madras High court today directed the Special Court for Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Sivaganga, to dispose of a case relating to corruption in the purchase of groundnut seeds, for which charge sheet was filed in 1998, within three months.
Justice R Mala of the Madurai Bench of the court, closing the petition filed by one S Palanivelu, who is the third accused in the case, directed the trial court to hear the case on a day-to-day basis and complete it within three months.
The judge directed the public prosecutor to produce witnesses on the day specified by the court concerned. The judge also closed the connected miscellaneous petition.

It was submitted that a case was registered in 1989 for corruption in procurement of groundnut seeds and charge sheet filed only in 1998 and after that there was no progress in the case.
Even though the present petition was filed to quash the charge sheet in respect of the petitioner, counsel for the petitioner submitted that he would be satisfied, in case a direction was issued to dispose the case at the earliest.