Direct payment to complainant can satisfy a payment order when receipt is acknowledged, enabling satisfaction to be recorded.

Direct payment of the amount ordered under a revisional order to the complainant, followed by an acknowledged receipt and supporting affidavit, was treated as sufficient compliance. The court held that routing the payment through court was a procedural mode rather than a condition affecting substance, and the Magistrate could record the amount as realised and paid in the fine register. Refusal to recognise compliance merely because the payment was not deposited in court was unwarranted, and the matter was directed to be closed with satisfaction recorded in the fine register.

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Issues: Whether direct payment of the fine amount to the complainant, coupled with acknowledgement of receipt, amounted to sufficient compliance with the earlier order so as to warrant closure of the case and recording of satisfaction in the fine register.

Analysis: The amount directed under the earlier revisional order had been paid in full to the complainant, who acknowledged receipt by issuing a receipt and filing an affidavit before the Court. The direction requiring remittance in court was treated as a procedural mode of compliance, and the earlier precedents recognised that where the complainant has actually received the amount, the Magistrate can record the payment as realised and paid, making the necessary entry in the fine register. In these circumstances, the refusal to accept the receipt merely because payment was not routed through court was unwarranted.

Conclusion: Direct payment to the complainant constituted sufficient compliance, and the order refusing to close the matter was set aside in favour of the petitioner.

Final Conclusion: The Court granted relief by recognising the settlement and directing the trial court to record satisfaction in the fine register as if the fine had been realised through court.

Ratio Decidendi: Where the complainant has actually received the amount ordered to be paid and acknowledges such receipt, the court may treat the payment as sufficient compliance and record satisfaction in the fine register even if the amount was not deposited in court in the prescribed manner.

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