IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision :20.01.2026 Surender Yadav ......Petitioner Versus Naresh Kumar ...... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA PARTAP SINGH Present : Mr. Vimal Kumar Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

SURYA PARTAP SINGH, J. (Oral) :

The petitioner who has been summoned as an accused in a complaint filed by the respondent in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class Gurugram, hereinafter being referred to as ‘trial Court’, has challenged the summoning order dated 11.11.2025, hereinafter being referred to as impugned order. The above mentioned summoning order has been passed in a compliant case file by the respondent for the commission of offence punishable under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, hereinafter being referred to as ‘N.I. Act’.

2. Heard.

3. It has been contended on behalf of the petitioner that the learned trial Court without looking into the facts that the complaint filed by the respondent was barred by law of limitation has passed the summoning order i.e. impugned order, and that while passing the above mentioned order the settled principles of law have been ignored. It has been highlighed b