203 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-62002-2023 (O&M)

Date of decision: 30.01.2025 Vishal Satinder Sood and another ... Petitioners Vs.

State of Haryana ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Sangram Singh Saron, Advocate, Ms. Amisha Batra, Advocate, Mr. Madhav Rao, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Vikas Bhardwaj, AAG, Haryana.

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HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) for quashing of FIR No.214 dated 08.03.2018 under Section 174-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) [now Section 209 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’)], registered at Police Station Sector-8, Faridabad, District Faridabad and all the consequential proceedings emanating therefrom.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners, inter alia, contends that on account of dishonouring of a cheque, which was issued by the petitioners to discharge their legal liability, on 20.10.2015, a complaint bearing NACT No.4859/2015 was filed by the complainant under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short ‘NI Act’) read with Sectio