https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=338261 A stayed order returning complaints did not make the proceedings cease to be pending, because the stay prevented the return direction from taking effect and the complainant was not required to re-file elsewhere. The later jurisdictional amendment to the Negotiable Instruments Act, introducing the revised forum under Section 142(2) read with Section 142A, was treated as retrospective and applicable to pending complaints. On that basis, objections based on functus officio, non-pendency, limitation and forum shopping were rejected, and the complaints were transferred to the court having territorial jurisdiction over the relevant bank branch. en-us Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 06:39:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=338261 A stayed order returning complaints did not make the proceedings cease to be pending, because the stay prevented the return direction from taking effect and the complainant was not required to re-file elsewhere. The later jurisdictional amendment to the Negotiable Instruments Act, introducing the revised forum under Section 142(2) read with Section 142A, was treated as retrospective and applicable to pending complaints. On that basis, objections based on functus officio, non-pendency, limitation and forum shopping were rejected, and the complaints were transferred to the court having territorial jurisdiction over the relevant bank branch. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=338261