{"id":196152,"date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somasundara-panicker-vs-state-of-kerala-represented-by-on-15-july-2009"},"modified":"2016-04-05T02:30:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:00:48","slug":"somasundara-panicker-vs-state-of-kerala-represented-by-on-15-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somasundara-panicker-vs-state-of-kerala-represented-by-on-15-july-2009","title":{"rendered":"Somasundara Panicker vs State Of Kerala Represented By on 15 July, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Somasundara Panicker vs State Of Kerala Represented By on 15 July, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nCrl.L.P..No. 541 of 2009()\n\n\n1. SOMASUNDARA PANICKER ,AGED 61\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. KOCHUMOL ALIAS MOLI SOJI\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.P.HARIDAS\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice M.N.KRISHNAN\n\n Dated :15\/07\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n                      M.N. KRISHNAN, J.\n                      ---------------------------\n                   CRL.L.P.NO.541 OF 2009\n                      ------------------------------\n              Dated this the 15th day of July, 2009\n\n                            O R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>     This special leave petition is preferred against the order of<\/p>\n<p>acquittal passed by the        Judicial First Class Magistrate-II<\/p>\n<p>Chaganassery in S.T.No.317 \/2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>     2. The complainant would contend that the accused had<\/p>\n<p>borrowed a sum of Rs. Five lakhs and towards the discharge<\/p>\n<p>of the same, had issued a cheque, which when presented for<\/p>\n<p>encashment, returned with the endorsement of insufficiency of<\/p>\n<p>funds.\n<\/p>\n<p>     3. On the contra, the accused would contend that he<\/p>\n<p>had taken a loan of Rs. Three lakhs and had repaid Rs. Two<\/p>\n<p>lakhs through one Mathew Joseph and Rs. One lakh directly<\/p>\n<p>and the cheque which was obtained as a blank cheque at<\/p>\n<p>the time of borrowal of the amount, has been used for filing<\/p>\n<p>the complaint.   The complainant when examined, totally and<\/p>\n<p>categorically denied any acquaintance with Mathew Joseph<\/p>\n<p>and   further   contended     that he had not         encahsed any<\/p>\n<p>cheques.    But on production as Exts.X1 and X2 when he was<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                2<\/span><br \/>\nCRL.L.P.NO.541\/09<\/p>\n<p>recalled and examined, he admitted his acquaintance with<\/p>\n<p>Mathew Joseph and would have a new case that there was<\/p>\n<p>money transaction between him and Mathew Joseph and it<\/p>\n<p>was towards that transaction, he had obtained the cheques.<\/p>\n<p>The court below very correctly found that the complainant<\/p>\n<p>has no rigard for truth.     So, analyzing the evidence, the<\/p>\n<p>court found that preponderance of probability lies on the side<\/p>\n<p>of the defence rather than the complainant and therefore<\/p>\n<p>ordered acquittal of the accused. I do not find any mistake<\/p>\n<p>committed by the learned Magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>           Therefore, the Crl.L.P is dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>                                M.N. KRISHNAN, JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>cl<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                     3<\/span><br \/>\nCRL.L.P.NO.541\/09<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                     4<\/span><br \/>\nCRL.L.P.NO.541\/09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Somasundara Panicker vs State Of Kerala Represented By on 15 July, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM Crl.L.P..No. 541 of 2009() 1. SOMASUNDARA PANICKER ,AGED 61 &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY &#8230; Respondent 2. KOCHUMOL ALIAS MOLI SOJI For Petitioner :SRI.P.HARIDAS For Respondent : No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somasundara Panicker vs State Of Kerala Represented By on 15 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somasundara-panicker-vs-state-of-kerala-represented-by-on-15-july-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Somasundara Panicker vs State Of Kerala Represented By on 15 July, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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