IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 458 of 2025

Reserved on:22.11.2025

Date of Decision: 19.12.2025

Pyar Singh ...Applicant

Versus

Meena Kumari ...Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹. Yes

For the Appellant : Mr Dinesh Sharma, Advocate.

For the Respondent : Nemo

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The appellant has filed the present appeal against the

judgment dated 25.10.2024, passed by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bilaspur, H.P. (learned Trial Court), vide which the complaint filed by the appellant (the complainant before the learned Trial Court) was dismissed. (Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in the same manner as they were arrayed before the

learned Trial Court for convenience.)

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rise to the present appeal are that the complainant filed a complaint before the

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

learned Trial Court against the accused for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 138 read with Section 142 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act). It was .asserted that the complainant and the accused were known to each other. T