https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165852 Territorial jurisdiction for a Section 138 prosecution may rest in any local area where an essential component of the offence occurs, because the offence is completed only through a sequence of statutory acts including drawing and presentation of the cheque, dishonour, notice, and failure to pay within time. Applying Section 178(d) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a court having jurisdiction over any one such local area may try the case. As the demand notice was issued from Mangalore, that court had jurisdiction, and the challenge to quashing the prosecution failed. en-us Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:21:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165852 Territorial jurisdiction for a Section 138 prosecution may rest in any local area where an essential component of the offence occurs, because the offence is completed only through a sequence of statutory acts including drawing and presentation of the cheque, dishonour, notice, and failure to pay within time. Applying Section 178(d) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a court having jurisdiction over any one such local area may try the case. As the demand notice was issued from Mangalore, that court had jurisdiction, and the challenge to quashing the prosecution failed. Case-Laws Companies Law Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=165852