https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401082 For a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, service of a statutory demand notice sent by registered post is presumed in the ordinary course under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, unless the contrary is proved. The presumption cannot be fixed at an artificially short period, such as 24 to 48 hours, merely because the parties reside in the same city. Applying that principle, notice issued on 18.12.2017 was treated as deemed served on 17.01.2018, so the complaint filed thereafter was within limitation and could not be rejected as time-barred. en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:50:04 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401082 For a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, service of a statutory demand notice sent by registered post is presumed in the ordinary course under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, unless the contrary is proved. The presumption cannot be fixed at an artificially short period, such as 24 to 48 hours, merely because the parties reside in the same city. Applying that principle, notice issued on 18.12.2017 was treated as deemed served on 17.01.2018, so the complaint filed thereafter was within limitation and could not be rejected as time-barred. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=401082