https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=112501 Section 145 of the Negotiable Instruments Act permits complainant evidence by affidavit, and the court's power under sub-section (2) is confined to summoning the deponent for cross-examination, not for a fresh examination-in-chief. Read with the statutory scheme and supported by the affidavit evidence framework in civil procedure and section 296 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the provision is meant to expedite trial and avoid of evidence. Since the complainant had already been cross-examined and no prejudice was shown, the challenge to requiring a second examination-in-chief failed. en-us Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 23 May 2014 18:21:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=112501 Section 145 of the Negotiable Instruments Act permits complainant evidence by affidavit, and the court's power under sub-section (2) is confined to summoning the deponent for cross-examination, not for a fresh examination-in-chief. Read with the statutory scheme and supported by the affidavit evidence framework in civil procedure and section 296 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the provision is meant to expedite trial and avoid of evidence. Since the complainant had already been cross-examined and no prejudice was shown, the challenge to requiring a second examination-in-chief failed. Case-Laws Companies Law Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=112501