JUDGMENT :

A. BADHARUDEEN, J.

1. This Original Petition (Crl.) is one filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India and the petitioner is the 3rd accused in S.C. No. 82/2021 on the files of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act Special Court (Additional Sessions Court-IV), Thiruvananthapuram.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Public Prosecutor appearing for the State.

3. In this petition the petitioner seeks the following reliefs:

“(i) Direct the Additional District and Sessions Court-IV, Thiruvananthapuram to dispose of S.C. No. 82/2021 within a period 6 months taking into account of the illness of the Counsel for the petitioner as evident from Exhibit P4 Medical Certificate.

(ii) Grant such other and further reliefs as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.

(iii) dispense with the filing of the translation of vernacular documents.”

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted 3rd that the petitioner has been arrayed as accused in S.C. No. 82/2021, on alleging commission of offences punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (‘NDP