Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 537 · Decided 11 August 2014
Pawan Kumar Ralli v. Maninder Singh Narula
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 537 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 1047
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1684/2014
- Decided
- 11 August 2014
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420; CrPC Section 482, 410; Constitution Article 142; NI Act Section 1381142, 420, 138
Headnote
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881: A B s. 138 (b) - 'Notice' - Court's power to condone delay in c filing a complaint uls 138 - Dishonour of cheque ..:.. Hand written note sent by complainant to accused calling upon him to make the payment - Subsequently a formal legal notice issued by complainant issued within the mandatory period of thirty days of dishonour 0 of cheques and fulfilled the mandatory requirements under clause (b) of proviso to s. 138 - Therefore, High Court committed no error in considering the handwritten note as 'notice' u/s 138. s.142(b}, proviso r/w s.138 - Condonation
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