JUDGMENT

Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J. - Cr.M.P.(M) No.871 of 2018.

For the reasons, as set out in the application, the delay of 39 days that has crept up in filing of the revision, is condoned. Application stands disposed of.

Revision be registered.

2. Looking to the nature of order, I propose to pass, it is not at all necessary to deal with the facts in detail. Suffice it to state that the complainant-respondent No.1 filed a complaint against the petitioner under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (for short ''Act'') which after trial was allowed by the trial Magistrate and the petitioner was ordered to be convicted and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of six months and to pay compensation of Rs. 1,50,000/-. The petitioner filed an appeal assailing the aforesaid conviction and sentence and the same was upheld by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-1, Mandi, District Mandi, H.P., Camp at Sundernagar. It is thereafter that the petitioner has filed the instant revision petition assailing the judgments of conviction and sentence as passed by the learned Courts below.

3. Today, petitioner is present in the Court and identified as such by his counsel. It is