This writ petition is directed against the order dated 8th January, 2001 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Kalyan dismissing the revision application tiled by the petitioner against an order of the Magistrate dated 29th December, 2000.

2. The petitioner is an original complainant who had filed a private complaint (Criminal Case No.206 of 1986) in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Kalyan. After 14 long years, the complainant made an application to the Magistrate on 27th September, 2000 stating that the entire proceedings of the trial should be conducted in Marathi in view of a notification dated 21st July, 1988 issued by the Government of Maharashtra under section 272 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short "the Cr.P.C."). By an order dated 29th December, 2000, the learned Magistrate directed that the entire proceedings of the trial would be conducted in Marathi. He however issued a further direction that since the case was a. warrant triable, the evidence i.e. depositions of witnesses would, in addition to being recorded in Marathi, be translated in English and such translation be kept on record in view of the directions issued by the Hig