JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. A.Y. Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Ms. B. Bhuyan, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State respondent and Mr. K. Khemka, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant.

2. This is a petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 praying to compound the offence committed by the petitioner under Section 138 of the N.I. Act and further for setting aside and quashing the judgment and order dated 16.08.2018, passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Hailakandi in Criminal Appeal No. 44/2017, upholding the judgment and order passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hailakandi in CR Case No. 10(A)/2015, convicting the present petitioner for the offence punishable under Section 138 of the N.I. Act and sentencing him to undergo SI for 6 (six) months and also to pay a sum of Rs.2,00,000/- as compensation.

3. It is submitted by Mr. A.Y. Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioner, that on being highly aggrieved and dissatisfied with the judgment and order passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Hailakandi in Criminal Appeal No. 44/2017 upholding the judgment and order passed by the learned Additio