{"id":253124,"date":"1994-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1994-01-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/t-shyamala-vs-s-m-r-finance-on-11-january-1994"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:45:11","slug":"t-shyamala-vs-s-m-r-finance-on-11-january-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/t-shyamala-vs-s-m-r-finance-on-11-january-1994","title":{"rendered":"T. Shyamala vs S.M.R. Finance on 11 January, 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">T. Shyamala vs S.M.R. Finance on 11 January, 1994<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1994 81 CompCas 919 Mad<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: P Singh<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: P Singh<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT  <\/p>\n<p> Pratap Singh, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\"> 1. The accused in C.C. No. 824 of 1993, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruvarur, has filed this petition under <a href=\"\/doc\/1679850\/\" id=\"a_1\">section 482<\/a> of the Code of Criminal Procedure praying to call for the records and quash the same.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\"> 2. The respondent has filed a private complaint against the petitioner\/for an offence under <a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_1\">section 138<\/a> of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (which I shall hereafter refer to as &#8220;the Act&#8221;). The allegations in it are briefly as follows : The accused was liable to pay a large sum of money to the complainant and towards that, the accused issued a cheque on October 14, 1993, for Rs. 50,000 and delivered it at Pulivalam. It was returned with an intimation dated October 18, 1993, for the reason &#8220;not arranged for&#8221;. The respondent issued a notice through his lawyer on October 25, 1993. The accused sent a reply on November 1, 1993, containing false allegations. Hence, the complaint.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\"> 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. T. S. N. Prabhakaran, would submit, firstly, that the complainant in his notice had not stated that he is going to prefer a complaint for an offence under <a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_2\">section 138<\/a> of the Negotiable Instruments Act against the petitioner. Secondly, he would submit that the accused had paid the entire amount due under the cheque.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\"> 4. I have carefully considered the submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioner. Regarding the first contention, I have to say that it is not necessary for the complainant to intimate that he is going to take action for an offence under <a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_3\">section 138<\/a> of the Act. What is required is that the payee has to call for payment for the said amount due within 15 days of the receipt of information by him and if the drawer of the cheque fails to make the payment within 15 days of receipt of notice, the complaint can be lodged. There is no obligation that the complainant should particularly refer to <a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_4\">section 138<\/a> of the Act in the notice. In the instant case, the relevant portion of the notice reads as follows :\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_5\">  &#8220;Please take notice that if you do not pay and settle the amount due under the cheque within fifteen days hereof, criminal legal action will be taken and relief had at with costs.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_6\"> 5. I am clear that this portion satisfies the requirements of clause (c) of the proviso to <a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_5\">section 138<\/a> of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_7\"> 6. Regarding the second submission, the allegation is that only a false reply was sent. While so, the claim that the amount due under the cheque was paid, can be canvassed only during the trial when evidence is let in to substantiate the claim. That stage has not yet come. On that ground, the complaint cannot be quashed at the threshold.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_8\"> 7. In the result, this petition fails and it is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court T. Shyamala vs S.M.R. Finance on 11 January, 1994 Equivalent citations: 1994 81 CompCas 919 Mad Author: P Singh Bench: P Singh JUDGMENT Pratap Singh, J. 1. The accused in C.C. No. 824 of 1993, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruvarur, has filed this petition under section 482 of the [&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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>T. Shyamala vs S.M.R. 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