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The Court issued specific direction to the Trial Court to expedite the hearing… particularly when the petitioner is languishing under incarceration for more than 8½ years.
“If the accused’s plea was accepted, it would amount to usurping the jurisdiction and power vested in the Designated Authority, who had all the powers of a Civil Court under Section 31 of the UAPA for making full and fair enquiry into the matter before it.”
The doors of justice cannot selectively be shut to a few and not to others, particularly where the life and liberty of the accused is at stake.