ORDER:

Assailing the judgment dated 24.10.2016 in Crl.A.No.135 of 2015 on the file of the Court of learned I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge at Visakhapatnam, confirming the conviction passed against the accused by the judgment dated 23.03.2015 in C.C.No.480 of 2014 on the file of the Court of learned Special Magistrate-IV at Visakhapatnam, for the offence under section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act (hereinafter referred to as “N.I.Act”), the petitioner/accused filed the present criminal revision case under Section 397 r/w.401 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 .

2. The revision case was admitted on 01.11.2016.

3. The shorn of necessary facts are that:

i). On 02.03.2009, the complainant borrowed an amount of Rs.45,000/- from the accused by pledging gold ornaments of his wife weighing 6.4 tulas. Later the complainant discharged the pledged amount with interest and requested the accused to return the said gold ornaments, but the accused postponed the same on one pretext or other. Then the complainant came to know that the brothers of the accused pledged the said gold ornaments to one Srinivas for Rs.65,000/-. Thereby, the complainant submitted report to Police on 18.11.2010.