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ANANYA BANDYOPADHYAY
Dilip Sahoo – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.
1. The instant revisional application has been filed by the petitioner for quashing of proceeding being C.R. Case No. 93/2008 under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act pending in the Court of the Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur.
2. Petitioner stated that the above mentioned case was initiated on the basis of one complaint filed by the opposite party no. 2 alleging inter alia that the petitioner happened to be his neighbour. The petitioner asked him to render financial assistance for running his business and on an assurance that he would be provided a good plot of land, the opposite party no. 2, handed him an amount of Rupees Five Lakhs Fifteen Thousand only out of which Rupees Thirty Thousand was repaid by the petitioner. Thereafter on persuasion of the opposite party no. 2, the petitioner issued a post dated Cheque being No. 383388 dated 22.02.08 of Rupees Eight Lakhs which on presentation for encashment was returned unpaid with the endorsement “full cover not received”. Thereafter on fulfillment of statutory requirement the complaint was made.
3. The petitioner stated that on receipt of summons from t
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