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The concurrent verdicts of Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Alathur, and the Sessions Court, Palakkad, in C.C.No.375/2011 & Crl.A.No.255/2014 respectively, convicting the petitioner for the commission of offence under Section 138 the Negotiable Instruments Act,1881(in short, ‘NI Act’) and sentencing him to imprisonment till rising of the Court with a further direction to pay compensation of Rs.8,50,000/- under Section 357 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(in short, ‘Cr.PC’) are under challenge in this revision petition.

2. The prosecution case relates to the dishonour of Ext P2 cheque dated 30.04.2014 for an amount of Rs.8,00,000/- issued by the petitioner to the complainant/first respondent, and the non-payment of the cheque amount despite the receipt of statutory notice. The Trial Court relied on the evidence tendered by the complainant as PW1 and the documents marked as Exts