JUDGMENT :

S.K. SAHOO, J.

The petitioner Krishna Chandra Patra, who is the complainant in 1.C.C. No.2489 of 2012, has filed this CRLLP petition under section 378(4) of Cr.P.C. for grant of leave to file appeal against the impugned judgment and order dated 24.06.2022 passed by learned Special Judge (C.B.I.), Court No.1 -cum- Additional Sessions Judge, Bhubaneswar in Crl. Appeal No.98 of 2019 in acquitting the opposite party Jambeswar Patra of the offence under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereafter ‘N.I. Act’). The opposite party faced trial in the Court of learned S.D.J.M., Bhubaneswar in 1.C.C. Case No.2489 of 2012 for the offence under section 138 of the N.I. Act and vide judgment and order dated 03.12.2019 found guilty of such offence and sentenced to undergo S.I. for a period of one year and to pay a compensation of Rs.20,00,000/- (rupees twenty lakh) only to the petitioner under section 357(3) of Cr.P.C., in default, to undergo S.I. for a further period of four months.

2. The case of the complainant-petitioner, in short, is that the petitioner was a special class contractor and permanently resides at Plot No.6/107, IRC Village, P.S. Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar