ORDER

The Criminal Original Petition has been filed to grant special leave to the petitioner to prefer an appeal against the judgment passed in C.C.No.343 of 2018 dated 05.08.2022 by the learned Judicial Magistrate, Fast Track Court No.I @ ML, Coimbatore.

2. The case of the petitioner is that, the petitioner/complainant and the respondent/accused are known to each other for a long period of time and on such acquittance, on 09.03.2015, the respondent approached the complainant and sought for a loan to the tune of Rs.2,50,0000/- for his urgent family expenses and since the petitioner had no amount in hand, he gave 108 grams of Gold ornaments worth about Rs.2,50,000/- and the respondent executed a loan agreement in favour of the petitioner on the same day and he also agreed to return the gold ornaments on or before 15.08.2015. However, despite the repeated request, the respondent had not returned the gold ornaments borrowed from the petitioner. Thereby, the petitioner sent a legal notice dated 04.11.2016, pursuant to which, on 20.12.2016, the respondent issued a cheque bearing No.000002 dated

30.01.2017 for a sum of Rs.2,50,000/-, in discharge of the above liability. When the said chequ