THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION NOs.12586, 12590 & 12592 & 12595 of 2024

COMMON ORDER

I have heard Mr. Dhananjay Chavan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, appearing on behalf of respondent No.1-State.

2. In all these petitions, the petitioner, who is the complainant, seeks prosecution of respondent No. 2 under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the NI Act’).

3. Since the petitioner raises an identical legal issue in each of these petitions, they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

4. Criminal Petition No. 12595 of 2024 has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNSS’), seeking quashment of the Docket Order dated 30.01.2024 passed by the Court of the VII Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Hyderabad, in S.T.C. N.I. No. 1275 of 2023.

Criminal Petition No.12586 of 2024 is filed under Section 528 of the BNSS for quashment of the Docket Order dated 30.01.2024 passed by the VII Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Hyderabad in STC NI No.1277 of 2023.

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