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CRR-1433 of 2019 (O&M)

2023:PHHC:044520

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CRR-1433 of 2019 (O&M)

Reserved on: 22.03.2023

Pronounced on: 27.03.2023

Vijay Gupta

......Petitioner

Versus

Sanjeev Kareer and another

......Respondents

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAMIT KUMAR

Argued by: - Mr. K.K. Jain, Advocate, for the petitioner.

None for respondent No.1.

Mr. Anup Singh, AAG, Punjab.

NAMIT KUMAR, J.

Petitioner has filed the instant revision petition assailing

judgment and order dated 17.02.2018 passed by learned Judicial

Magistrate Ist Class, Malerkotla, whereby he has been convicted and

sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year

under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short

'the Act') and to pay compensation to the tune of double the cheque

amount to respondent No.1-complainant as also the judgment dated

14.05.2019 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Sangrur, whereby

appeal of the petitioner against the aforesaid judgment of conviction

and order of sentence dated 17.02.2018 has been dismissed.

The brief facts of the complaint are that on 01.09.