1. - The petitioner Roop Narain Singh was a lower division clerk in the office of Panchayat Samiti, Todabhim, district Sawai Madhopur. In the year 1975 a First Information Report was lodged against him at Police Station Todabhim alleging, Petitioner and misappropriated money amounting to over a lac of rupees while he was working as Rokadia The period for which the embezzlement alleged was 1969 to 1974. It appears that the embezzlement was detected when the accounts were audited in the year 1973-74. The First Information Report was bifurcated into six cases relating to each year and thereafter three challans were filed in 1977. two were filed m the year 1978 and one case was filed in the year 1981. The offence for which the charged are framed very from Sections 409, 407, 468, 479A, 209/120B and Section 201 read with Section 120G IPC.

2. The petitioner has moved six different petition for quashing the proceedings against him on the ground of delay m the trial of the cases. In the five cases, pending against him the charge was framed on November 6th, 1979 while in the sixth case, it was framed on August 3rd, 1989. In all the cases, no witness has been examined so far According