Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 551 · Decided 24 July 2024
Shri Gurudatta Sugars Marketing PVT. LTD. v. Prithviraj Sayajirao Deshmukh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 551 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 1211
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3070/2024
- Decided
- 24 July 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; NI Act Section 138, 141, 143, 7; IBC
Headnote
Whether the signatory of the cheque, authorized by the "Company", is the "drawer" and whether such signatory could be directed to pay interim compensation in terms of section 143-A of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 leaving The High Court answered the question in the negative. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - ss.138, 141, 143-A - Appellant company entered into several agreements with C Ltd. and made advance payments for supply of sugar - C failed to supply - In order to
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