G.N.Prasad, J.

1. This application has been forwarded to this Court from the Central Jail, Patna, where the petitioner, Krishna Bahadur, has been under detention in connection with Patna Kotwali P. S. Case No. 91 (1) 61 under Sec.379 of the Indian Penal Code. The case was registered on the 29th January, 1967, upon a report made by one Badri Prasad Bajak to the effect that the petitioner had committed theft in respect of certain clothes from a laundry which the informant was running in Krishna Chowk Dharamshala at Mithapore. The case of the petitioner is that although more than three years have since elapsed, the Investigation Officer of the case has not submitted the final form for reason best known to him. It has further been stated that every 14th or 15th day the petitioner is being sent to Court lock-up and again sent back to the judicial custody at Patna Central Jail without being produced before any Magistrate, and in this manner a long period of over 37 months have elapsed. "Still the I. O. of the case is sitting idle over the submission of the final form of the case. The kind attention of the learned S.D.O., Patna and District and Sessions Judge, Patna was drawn towa