SC Apologises to a litgant

New Delhi Dec 3: In a rare incident the Supreme court admitted the delay in the commencement of criminal trial due to two conflicting orders passed by a high court judge in a single day in two different but related cases and has apologized.

The apex court has said that the judgments passed by a High court had created a "legal conundrum" as one order of the judge restricted further probe in the case while in the order, it allowed the investigation to go on.

In 2004 A women Shyam Lata made a written complaint to the SSP of Haridwar alleging that her two brothers forged documents and signatures and claimed she had given her shop on rent to them.

The case has reached apex court after crossing various stages and the women who had lodged the complaint has passed away and finally, the trial has not yet been started due to legal hurdles for 13 years.

A bench of justices R K Agrawal and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, "we are sorry to note that such a confusion has caused more than a decade's delay in even the criminal trial commencing and allowed the appeals of the woman."