IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, DHARWAD BENCH DATED THIS THE 12^TH DAY OF MARCH, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SHIVASHANKAR AMARANNAVAR CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.100279 OF 2016 BETWEEN:

SRI MANJUNATH S/O. PANDURANG REVANKAR, AGE: 26 YEARS, OCC: GOLDSMITH, R/O: HABBUWADA, KARWAR.

…APPELLANT (BY SMT. PRIYANKA KADAMPUR, ADVOCATE APPEARED FOR SRI B.C. JNANAYYA SWAMI AND SRI B. ANWAR BASHA, ADVOCATES)

AND:

SRI MANJUNATH S/O. VENKATRAMAN KURDEKAR, AGE: 38 YEARS, OCC: GOLDSMITH, R/O: H.NO.2274 ASHIRWAD, NANDESHWAR ROAD MUNDGOD, TQ: KARWAR.

Digitally signed by ASHPAK …RESPONDENT KASHIMSA MALAGALADINNI (BY SRI V. S. KALASURMATH, ADVOCATE)

Location: High Court of Karnataka, Dharwad Bench, Dharwad THIS CRIMINAL APPEAL IS FILED UNDER SECTION 378(4) OF CR.P.C., PRAYING TO CALL FOR RECORDS IN CRIMINAL CASE NO.331 OF 2006 ON THE FILE OF THE LEARNED J.M.F.C. 2^ND COURT, KARWAR, PERUSE THE SAME, ALLOW THIS APPEAL AND SET ASIDE THE ORDER OF ACQUITTAL DATED 03.09.2016 AND HOLD THE RESPONDENT/ACCUSED GUILTY OF THE OFFENCE PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTION 138 OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND EQUITY.

THIS CRIMINAL APPEAL, COMING ON FOR FINAL HEARING, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS