Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 63 · Decided 29 January 2024
Ajitsinh Chehuji Rathod v. State of Gujarat & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 63 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 1083
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 478/2024
- Decided
- 29 January 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (1-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 391; Evidence Act Section 73; NI Act Section 138, 118
Headnote
Appellant-accused convicted u/s.138, Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, had claimed mismatch of signatures on the cheque in question. His application for comparison of the signature as appearing on the cheque through the handwriting expert was rejected by trial court. justified in dismissing the application filed by the appellant u/s.391, CrPC for taking additional evidence at appellate stage and seeking a direction to obtain the opinion of the handwriting expert. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - ss.118, 138 - Code of Criminal
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