271-1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.05.2025 Manjinder Singh ... Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Gurcharan Dass, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Rishabh Singla, AAG Punjab.

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HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J.(Oral)

1. The present petition has been preferred under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter ‘Cr.P.C.’) against the order dated 24.11.2021(Annexure P-5) passed by learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Khanna vide which the petitioner has been directed to deposit 20% of the cheque amount as interim compensation under Section 143-A of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘NI Act’), in the case stemming from NACT case No.70 dated 27.01.2020 filed under Section 138 of the NI Act, titled as ‘M/s Sohan Lal Trading Company vs.

Manjinder Singh.’

2. Briefly, the facts, as alleged, are that the petitioner approached respondent No.2-complainant to sell his crops through it. The petitioner had taken cash advance multiple times from respondent No.2, after making due entries in the record books. Respondent No.2 h