( 1 ) ON April 8,1996, after the complaint had been received by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, it was adjourned to December 9,1996 for preliminary evidence of the complainant. Being aggrieved by this order adjourning the case by eight months only for recording the preliminary evidence, the petitioner has filed this revision petition. Petitioner wants guidelines to be issued to the Trial Courts trying such type of complaints. I have been informed that in cases filed under Section 138 of he Negotiable Instruments Act, the Metropolitan Magistrates are givin adjournment of 7/8 months for recording of pre-summoning evidence.

( 2 ) BY Act 66 of 1988 Chapter XVH comprising Sections 138 to 142 was inserted in the Negotiable Instruments Act with effect from 1st April, 1989. The object of inserting Chapter XVII in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 was that where any cheque drawn by a person for the discharge of any liability was returned by the bank unpaid for the reason of insufficiency of the amount on which the cheque was drawn or for the reason that it exceeded the arrangements made by the reason that it exceeded the arrangements made by the drawer of the chequ