{"id":238273,"date":"2009-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-n-gowramma-vs-k-s-nagendra-prasad-on-26-february-2009"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:45:26","slug":"smt-n-gowramma-vs-k-s-nagendra-prasad-on-26-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-n-gowramma-vs-k-s-nagendra-prasad-on-26-february-2009","title":{"rendered":"Smt N Gowramma vs K S Nagendra Prasad on 26 February, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt N Gowramma vs K S Nagendra Prasad on 26 February, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Dr.K.Bhakthavatsala<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Crl.P No.44l9\/2008<\/p>\n<p>4. Keeping in View that the petitioner has not signed the cheque<br \/>\nin question and she is not responsible for payment of the<br \/>\namount, the learned Magistrate erred in taking cognizanciei&#8221;&#8216;ifogrv\ufb02itliie _<br \/>\noffence under Section 138 of the Act against the;present_petitioneri: \u00ab _ if  if<\/p>\n<p>5. In the result, the Petition is allov;ed..__and theVproccetiingsin 1; &#8216;C  \\&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>No.30788\/2002 on the \ufb01le of XIX Addl. 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Keeping in View that the petitioner has not signed the cheque in question and she is not responsible for payment of the amount, the learned Magistrate erred in taking cognizanciei&#8221;&#8216;ifogrv\ufb02itliie _ offence under Section 138 [&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":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smt N Gowramma vs K S Nagendra Prasad on 26 February, 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\/smt-n-gowramma-vs-k-s-nagendra-prasad-on-26-february-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smt N Gowramma vs K S Nagendra Prasad on 26 February, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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