K.K.SRIVASTAVA
Meeta Rai – Appellant
Versus
Gulshan Mahajan – Respondent
K.K. Srivastava, J. - By means of this petition filed under section 482 Criminal Procedure Code, the petitioner seeks the quashing of the impugned complaint filed under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act and the order of summoning passed by the Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Amritsar. The copy of the complaint has been placed on record as Annexure P-5 and the order of summoning has been placed on record as Annexure P-6. One of the grounds urged on behalf of the petitioner is that the impugned complaint has not been filed by the payee or the holder in due course of the cheque which is alleged to have bounced and it was issued by the respondent. A perusal of the copy of the impugned complaint filed in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar (copy Annexure P-5) will show that the complaint was filed by one Gulshan Mahajan son of Amar Nath Mahajan c/o Pioneer Press, Katra Sher Singh, Amritsar. In para 1 of the impugned complaint, it was averred as under :- "That the complainant is the husband of Sucheta Mahajan daughter of Shri Gian Chand Gupta and she has given authority letter for institution of the complaint against the accused for the dishonour of chequ
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