IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 175 of 2015

Reserved on: 20.12.2025

Date of Decision: 1.1.2026.

M/s Mehak Fire Protection ...Appellant

Versus

Ravi Kumar ...Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No.

For the Appellant : Mr Ashok Kumar Tyagi, Advocate.

Forh the Respondent : Mr Karan Singh Kanwar, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The present appeal is directed against the order dated

19.9.2014, passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Nahan, District Sirmour, H.P. (learned Trial Court), vide which the complaint filed by the appellant (complainant before learned Trial Court) for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (NI Act) was dismissed for non-prosecution. (Parties shall hereinafter be

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

referred to in the same manner as they were arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rHise to the present appeal are that the complainant filed a complaint before the learned Trial Court against the accused for the commission of an offence p