THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRR-2065-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 01.12.2025.

PARDEEP KUMAR ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Deepak Kumar, Advocate, for the petitioner.

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

This revision petition has been filed aggrieved of the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 09.09.2022 passed by the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ratia, whereby the petitioner had been convicted for the commission of offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 and had been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year and further to pay cheque amount as compensation in terms of Section 357(3) of the Cr.P.C. to the complainant within a period of one month.

2 A further challenge is raised to the judgment dated 01.08.2025, whereby the Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehabad, has dismissed the Criminal Appeal No. CRA/124/2022 preferred by the petitioner and affirmed the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 09.09.2022 passed by the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ratia.

3 Briefly stated, the facts of the