IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH CRA-AS-36-2017

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK

....APPELLANT

V/s

SANDEEP KUMAR

....RESPONDENT

Date of decision: 22.12.2025

Date of Uploading:22.12.2025

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

Present: None for the appellant/applicant.

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SUMEET GOEL , J. (Oral)

1. The substantive prayer made in the present appeal reads, thus:

“It is therefore humbly most and respectfully prayed that this appeal may kindly be accepted and the impugned order passed by the learned Trial Court dated 04.08.2014 may kindly be set aside and the accused may kindly be commission of the held guilty for the alleged offence under

Section 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 the in interest of justice.”

Alongwith an appeal, an application for grant of leave has also

been preferred under Section 378(4) Cr.P.C., 1973

2. I have perused the paper-book.

3. Before proceeding to consider the application (for grant of special leave to appeal)/appeal, it would be apposite to refer herein to a judgment passed by this Court in CRM-A-826-2025 titled as Raj Kumar vs. Rajender : 2025:PHHC:079740 wherein, this Court, while relying upon the dicta of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in M/s Celestium Financi