Mehinder Singh Sullar, J.—Tersely, the facts, which need a necessary mention, for the limited purpose of deciding the instant main revision petition and emanating from the record, are that, two criminal complaints, i.e. bearing Nos.823-11 of 2007 titled as Rameshwar v. Surinder Singh and 596-11 of 2007 titled as M/s Hazari Ram Inderjit v. Surinder Singh were filed against the petitioner-accused, for the commission of offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter to be referred as “the NI Act”).

2. Having completed all the codal formalities, the trial Magistrate convicted the petitioner-accused in both the complaints and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year, to pay a fine of Rs. 5000/- and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three months in each case u/s 138 of the NI Act, vide impugned judgments of conviction dated 15.9.2008 & 27.9.2008 and orders of sentence dated 16.9.2008 & 29.9.2008 respectively.

3. Aggrieved by the judgments of conviction and orders of sentence, the appeals filed by the petitioner-accused were dismissed as well, by t