IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CrMMO No. 1129 of 2025 Date of Decision: 24.3.2026 _____________________________________________________________________

Arvind Verma ……...Petitioner Versus Dhian Singh …....Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting? Yes.

For the Petitioner: Mr. Ravinder Singh Chandel, Advocate.

For the Respondents: Mr. Pawan Sharma, Advocate.

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Sandeep Sharma, J. (Oral)

By way of present petition, prayer has been made by the petitioner to quash and set-aside complaint filed by the respondent/ complain ant under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Theog, in case No.

335 of 2022.

2. Precisely, the grouse of the petitioner as has been highlighted in the petition and further canvassed by Mr. Ravinder Singh Chandel, Advocate, is that no case much less under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (in short “Act”) is made out against the petitioner for the reason that cheque issued by the petitioner-accused towards discharge of lawful liability was never dishonoure