IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Criminal Revision No.483 of 2024 Date of Decision: 11.5.2026 _____________________________________________________________________

Dalip Singh Thakur ……...Petitioner Versus Sanjeev Kumar …....Respondent Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

For the Petitioner: Mr. Pushpender Verma, Advocate vice Mr.

Kulbhushan Khajuria, Advocate.

For the Respondent: Mr. Ajay Kumar Chauhan, Advocate, for the urespondent.

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Sandeep Sharma, J. (Oral)

Instant criminal revision petition, lays challenge to judgment dated 4.7.2024, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Rohru, , Dishtrict Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, in Criminal Appeal No.11 of 2024, affirming the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 15.1.2024, passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-I, HRohru, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh in Criminal Case No.135-3 of

2022, whereby the learned trial Court while holding the petitioner-accused guilty of having committed offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (in short the “Act"),