IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-61894-2023 (O&M) Date of decision : 09.04.2026 Anil Kumar ...Petitioner Versus Hardeep Singh ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Shreenath A. Khemka, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Vijay Lath, Advocate for the respondent.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The instant petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. (which is pari materia with Section 528 of BNSS, 2023) seeking quashing of order dated 09.05.2011, passed by the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, SAS Nagar in complaint bearing NACT No. 638 of 2023, titled as Hardeep Singh vs. Anil Kumar, filed under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short ‘N. I. Act’), whereby notice of accusation was served upon the petitioner for commission of aforementioned offence, as well as for quashing of order dated 25.09.2023, passed in the same complaint, whereby bailable warrants had been ordered to be issued against the petitioner.

2. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that the respondent/complainant had filed a civil suit in the year 2010 and willfully abandoned fi