Serial No. 18 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR CRM(M) 155/2024 CrLM (399/2024)

KULDEEP SINGH …Petitioner/Appellant(s)

Through: Mr. Bilal Ahmad, Advocate Vs.

KHAZIR MUHAMMAD BHAT ...Respondent(s)

Through: None CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY PARIHAR, JUDGE

ORDER

12.12.2025

1. The respondent had earlier been kept waiting, and even today, when the matter was taken up, none appeared on behalf of the respondent, whereas the record of the Trial Court has already been received.

2. Ld. Counsel for the petitioner submits that, insofar as the issue of territorial jurisdiction is concerned, the petitioner agrees with the observation of the Trial Court that in view of the law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Dashrath Rup Singh Rathod v. State of Maharashtra and the subsequent amendment by way of Section 142-A of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881(the Act), the Court at Shopian lacked jurisdiction to continue with the complaint filed by the petitioner. To that extent, the impugned order is correct. However, instead of transferring the complaint to the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pulwama, which was the competent Court having jurisd