JASJIT SINGH BEDI
Bhupinder Kaur – Appellant
Versus
Sohan Lal Mohan Lal – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Jasjit Singh Bedi, J.
CRM-40081-2023
The present application has been filed by the applicant-petitioner for placing on record the Annual Report of the company dated 30.09.2015 as Annexure A-1.
For the reasons mentioned in the application, the same is allowed and the Annual Report of the company dated 30.09.2015 as Annexure A-1 is taken on record.
CRM-M-26809-2021
The prayer in the present petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is for quashing of Criminal Complaint No.NACT/846/2018 dated 16.07.2018 (Annexure P-1), the summoning order dated 15.09.2018 under section 138 of the NI Act (Annexure P-3), the order dated 18.03.2021 (Annexure P-4) whereby the application along with the revision petition filed by the petitioner stands dismissed and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom.
2. The brief facts of the case as emanating from the pleadings are that the complainant firm (M/s Sohan Lal Mohan Lal, Commission Agents, Talwandi Bhai Tehsil and District Ferozpur through its partner Sh.Vijay Kumar son of Mohan Lal) had been supplying paddy/basmati on credit to the accused firm of which accused No.1 (Bhupinder Kaur, Director of Golden Agrarian Pvt. Ltd. Sadik Road, Faridkot, Tehsil an
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