By the modified order prosecution can legitimately claim a period of one more year for companypleting the prosecution evidence in respect of the cases referred to therein.
The prosecution proceedings against the respondent were quashed by the High Court mainly on the ground of the decision of this Court in 1998 7 SCC 507.
Instead of quashing the proceedings the High Court companyld have directed the trial companyrt to close the evidence thus for adduced against him and to go to the further steps in the matter.
Instead of doing that the learned single judge of the High Court had delinked the respondent from the array of a number of other accused and quashed the case in respect of him alone.
Whatever be the merit of the companytentions based on the decision of this Court in Rajdeo Sharma v. State of Bihar learned companynsel for the State invited our attention to the modification made by this Court in regard to the same decision by a subsequently rendered decision which is reported in Rajdeo Sharma II v. State of Bihar .
Leave granted.
By the impugned order the said benefit had been denied to the prosecution.
