Present :

Mr. Justice Ashish Ranjan Das.

Criminal Revision No.1845 of 2018 In the matter of:

Mostofa Kamal

..... Petitioner

-Versus-

The State and another

......... Opposite parties. Mr. F.M. Mizanur Rahman, Advocate

.....For the petitioner. Mr. Md. Mizanur Rahman Khan, Adv. ….. Opposite party No.2

Mr. Md. Fazlur Rahman Khan, D.A.G with

Ms. Shama Akter, A.A.A.G

... For the State Heard on: 08.11.2022 and 09.11.20222

Judgment on: 16.11.2022

Ashish Ranjan Das, J:

The learned Joint Metropolitan Sessions Judge, 1st Court, Khulna by his judgment dated 04.04.2017 passed in Metropolitan Sessions Case No. 935 of 2016 convicted the accused petitioner under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,1881 and sentenced him to suffer simple imprisonment for 4 months

coupled with a fine of cheque amount of Tk. 5,00,000/-.

Being aggrieved the convict petitioner preferred criminal appeal no. 227 of 2017 before the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Khulna and the learned appellate court by order dated 30.04.2018 dismissed the appeal and thereby upheld the order of conviction and sentence passed by the court below. Hence is this criminal revisional application at the instance of the