( 1 ) THIS petition under Section 482 of Cr. P. C. is filed challenging an order of the Additional Sessions Judge dated 17. 1. 2001 whereby he has dismissed the criminal revision filed by the petitioner against an order of a metropolitan Magistrate who had dismissed the application of the petitioner filed under Section 311 of Cr. P. C. and had declined to recall three PWs : PW 1 Naval kishore Joshi, PW 2 Mrs. Devki and PW 3 Mr. N. K. Banerjee.

( 2 ) BRIEFLY stated the facts are that a case was registered against the petitioner satyadeen @ Ram Singh and others for offence under Sections 419/468/420/471 read with Section 34, IPC on the complaint of one Naval Kishore Joshi. It was alleged that these accused in complicity of each other hand cheated the complainant of Rs. 2,48,000/- on the pretext of sale of a plot of land measuring 400 sq. yds. to him in ashok Nagar. The charge-sheet was submitted in the Court in. January, 1991. Since then the case lingered on and ultimately the statement of the complainant Naval kishore Joshi, PW 1 was recorded on 6. i. 1997. Statement of PW 2 Mrs. Devika and n. K. Banerjee PW 3 was also recorded on the same date. Thereafter on differe