Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 1059 · Decided 1 October 2024
M/S S.S. Production and ANR. P1: M/S S. S. Production P2: TR. S. Subbiah v. TR. Pavithran Prasanth
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 1059 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 2248
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 13981/2024
- Decided
- 1 October 2024
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NI Act Section 138, 139
Headnote
Issue arose as to whether the courts below were justified in convicting the petitioners u/s.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 for dishonour of cheques and sentencing them to imprisonment and to pay the cheque amounts as compensation, in each of the complaints. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - ss.138, 139 - Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency of funds - Petitioners borrowed certain sum in five instalments as a hand loan from the
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