JUDGMENT :

C.P Case No. 616 of 2001 was instituted by Ramjee Singh Yadav on an allegation that his full brother Shivjanam Yadav posing himself as Ramjee Singh secured employment with M/s. Bharat Coking Coal Limited (in short, BCCL) and thereby caused financial losses to him.

2. The complainant is aggrieved by the judgment dated 28th November 2014 passed in Criminal Appeal No. 70 of 2012 by which the learned Appellate Court has set-aside the judgment of conviction of O.P No. 2 on the ground that the learned Magistrate could not have taken cognizance of the offence after delay of 28 years.

3. This criminal revision petition was filed on 24th February 2015 and notice was issued to O.P No. 2 by an order dated 6th November 2017.

4. O.P No. 2 put his appearance on 5th January 2018 through Mr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, the learned counsel.

5. On 18th October 2021, Mr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, the learned counsel, appeared for O.P No. 2 but thereafter he stopped appearing for O.P No. 2.

6. No one appears for O.P No. 2.

7. This Court takes notice of conduct of a counsel who after filing Vakalatnama stops appearing in the matter without offering any explanation to the Court for his reluctance/inability to app