IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANGLADESH HIGH COURT DIVISION

(CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION) Present:

Mr. Justice Md. Kamrul Hosssain Mollah

Criminal Appeal No.12770 of 2017

Md. Shawkat Imran

......convict-Appellant

-Versus-

The State and another

…... opposite-parties No one appears

........For the convict-Appellant

, A.A.G

……..For the State

Mr. Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Advocate

……For the respondent-opposite party No.2

Heard on: 09.01.2024 &

Judgment on: 11.01.2024.

Md. Kamrul Hossain Mollah.J:

This appeal has been preferred against the judgment and

order of conviction and sentence dated 16.10.2017 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 1st Court, Gazipur in Sessions Case No. 1308 of 2015 corresponding to C.R. Case No. 1206 of 2015 convicting the appellant under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act 1881 and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment for 01(one) year with a fine of Tk.23,91,000/- (twenty three lakh and ninety one thousands).

The respondent No.2, as complainant filed a petition of complaint under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gazipur.

The prosecution case, in short, is that the convict-appel