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Issues: Whether the FIR and consequent proceedings arising from the alleged misuse of signed cheques and the alleged cash transaction were liable to be quashed in exercise of inherent jurisdiction.
Analysis: The dispute arose out of competing versions concerning the issuance and use of the cheque. The admitted signatures on the cheque attracted the statutory presumption under Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, and a signed blank cheque, if voluntarily handed over, does not by itself defeat the cheque's enforceability. The presumption is rebuttable, but the rebuttal is a matter of trial and is tested on a preponderance of probabilities. The allegations regarding breach of the cash-payment ceiling under the Income-tax Act, 1961 were treated as reinforcing the illegality of the complainant's version and the Court found that continuation of the criminal proceedings would protect an unlawful transaction.
Conclusion: The FIR and all proceedings arising from it were quashed, and the petition was allowed.
Final Conclusion: The criminal process was terminated because the allegations, on the admitted facts and statutory presumptions, were not fit to be allowed to continue as a prosecution.
Ratio Decidendi: A voluntarily signed cheque remains subject to the statutory presumption of liability under Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, and quashing is warranted where continuation of proceedings would amount to sustaining an abuse of process and a miscarriage of justice.
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