Section 131, THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965

(1) If a person committed for trial in the Supreme Court other than on a charge of treason or murder shall nothave been tried by the end of the next criminal sessions after the sessions to which he was originally committed he shall, if in prison, on his application made in the last day of such first mentioned sessions be admitted to bail unless it be made to appear to the Court on oath that the prosecution witnesses or any of Them could not have been brought before the Court before the end of that sessions. (2) If a person committed for trial in the Supreme Court shall not have been tried by the end of the next criminal sessions but one after the sessions to which he was originally committed he shall on his application made on the last day of such first mentioned sessions be acquitted and discharged, unless the Court sees good reason to the contrary . (3) For the purposes of this section the expression "sessions" does not include any sessions designated by the Chief Justice as a special sessions. ARRAIGNMENT