IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. Revision No. 95 of 2016 Reserved on: 24.11.2025 Date of Decision: 19.12.2025 Sohan Lal Sharma ...Petitioner Versus f Suresh Kumar Gupta and another o ...Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No For the Petitioner : Mr G.R. Palsra, Advocate.

For the ResCpondent : Mr H.S. Rangra, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge The present revision is directed against the judgment dated 18.03.2016, passed by learned Sessions Judge, Mandi, H.P. (learned Appellate Court) vide which the judgment of conviction dated 02.11.2015 and order of sentence dated 07.11.2015, passed by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mandi, H.P. (learned Trial Court) were upheld. (Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in the same manner as they were arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes.

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rise to the present revision are that the complainant filed a complainPt against the accused before the learned Trial Court for the com.mission of an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrum