IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
GANGOH TIMBER TRADERS AND ANOTHER – Appellant
Versus
TEJINDER CHAWLA – Respondent
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CRM-43741-2025 Application is allowed as prayed for and the complaints dated
17.01.2020 and 07.08.2020 are taken on record as Annexures A-1 & A-2.
CRM-M-55012-2025 The present petition has been filed under Section 528 BNSS seeking setting aside of the order dated 18.08.2025 passed by the Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Kurukshetra in case bearing No. NACT-175-2020 titled “Tejinder Chawla versus Gangoh Timber Trader”, instituted under Section
138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
2. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners inter alia contends that the respondent-complainant had filed the complaint against the petitioners on the allegation that he had advanced a sum of Rs. 27.50 lakh to the petitioners herein and that in discharge of the said legal liability, five cheques (viz. two cheques of a denomination of Rs. 8 lakh each; two cheques of denomination of Rs. 5 lakh each and one cheque for a sum of Rs.1.50 lakh) had been issued by the petitioners herein drawn on Oriental Bank of Commerce. The four cheques, viz., two cheques for the amount of Rs. 8 lakh each and two cheques for the amount of Rs. 5 lakh each were dishonoured for want of funds, while one cheque for the sum of Rs. 1.50 lakh was encashed on its presentation. A common complaint had been filed in relation to the two dishonoured cheques for the sum of Rs. 5 lakh each.
3. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners contends that the defence of the petitioners, in response to the legal notice, was to effect that their blank cheques had been stolen and the same had been misused by the respondent-complainant. He contends that notwithstanding the said defence, no evidence wa
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