JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

Being aggrieved and dissatisfied with the order dated 7.01.2019 passed by learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No.1, Amb, District Una, H.P., whereby an application under Section 145(2) of the Negotiable Instruments Act, seeking therein permission to cross-examine the complainant and his witnesses, preferred on behalf of the petitioner-accused, came to be dismissed, petitioner-accused has approached this Court in the instant proceedings filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. read with Article 227 of the Constitution of India, praying therein to set-aside the aforesaid order and grant one opportunity to cross-examine the complainant and his other witnesses adduced in support of the averments contained in the complaint.

2. Precisely, the facts as emerge from the record are that the respondent (hereinafter referred to as the ‘complainant’) instituted a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (for short Act) in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No.1, Amb, District Una, H.P., alleging therein that petitioner-accused (hereinafter referred to as ‘accused’) issued cheque amounting to Rs.90,000/- in favo