JUDGMENT :

P.N. PRAKASH, J.

Prayer: Criminal Revision Petition filed under Section 397 Cr.P.C. seeking to set aside the order dated 07.03.2020 passed in Crl. M.P. No. 12968 of 2019 in Crl. Appeal No. 22 of 2019 on the file of the III Additional Sessions Court, City Civil Court, Chennai.

1. This case was taken up through video conferencing.

2. For the sake of convenience, the petitioner and the respondent will be referred to as the complainant and accused respectively.

3. It is the case of the complainant that the accused was his colleague in the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital and on that acquaintance, she availed a hand loan of Rs. 3,30,000/- from him and executed a promissory note dated 10.11.2014 (Ex.P.1); the accused did not pay interest for the said loan and ultimately, when the complainant started pre-zssurising her, she gave a post dated cheque for a sum of Rs. 3,30,000/- bearing the date 16.01.2016 (Ex.P.2); though the cheque was dated 16.01.2016, at the request of the accused, the complainant presented the cheque only on 28.03.2016 for clearance; the cheque was dishonoured on the ground “funds insufficient” vide return memo (Ex.P.3); hence, the complainant issued a statutory d