IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr.MP No. 371 of 2026 in Cr.R. No.47 of 2024 Date of Decision: 05.0.3.2026 ____________________________________________________________P_________

Sh. Padam Chand ……...Applicant/Petitioner Versus Sh.Dinesh Thakur …....Non-applicant/Respondent Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting? f For the petitioner: Mr. Mohd. oAamir, Advocate.

For the Respondent: Mr. M.A. Safee, Advocate.

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Sandeep Sharma, J. (Oral) r By way of inustant application filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Souraksha Sanhita, 2023 read with Section 147 of Negotiable Instruments Act, prayer has been made by the applicant- accused for compounding of offence alleged to have been committed under Sectionh 138 of the Act.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that non-applicant/respondent/complainant (for short ‘complainant’) filed a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (for short ‘Act’) in the competent court of law, alleging therein that in the first week of March 2017, he had advanced loan of Rs.2,00,000/- to t