The complainant, who has lost his all the three cases in C.C. No.6223 to 6225 of 1995 on the file of the IV Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai, is the appellant herein in all the three Appeals. The Complaints were preferred under Section 200 of Cr.P.C. for an offence punishable under Section 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act.

2. C.C.No.6223/1995: In the complaint in C.C. No.6223 of 1995, the complainant would state that the second accused is one of the directors of the first accused-Company and the first accused-accused was having business transaction with the complainant-Company and that in the said business transaction, the accused owes money to the complainant-Company and in order to discharge the said debt, the accused had issued a cheque dated 10.05.1993, for a sum of Rs.50,000/- bearing cheque No. 114402 and another cheque dated 28.05.1993 bearing No.114406 for Rs.30,772.35/- drawn in Bank of India in favour of the complainant. When the above said cheques were presented before the Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Thambu Chetty Street, Chennai, they were returned by the Bank with an endorsement that "it exceeds arrangement" on 09.11.1993. The complainant issued a not