Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 59 · Decided 18 January 2019
Anss Rajashekar v. Augustus Jeba Ananth
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 59 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 731
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 95/2019
- Decided
- 18 January 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NI Act Section 138, 139
Headnote
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - ss.138 and 139 - Dishonour of cheque - Appeal against conviction - Appellant's plea was that there was an absence of legally enforceable debt and the burden which was cast by the provisions of s.139 was discharged by him - loan of Rs.15 lakhs from him and the cheques were issued by appellant in discharge of the same - The defence of the appellant was that he did not borrow the said amount as alleged nor did he issue the cheque in discharge of any legally enforceable debt and that four blank cheques were
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