https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=305566 For prosecutions under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, territorial jurisdiction is fixed by amended Section 142(2) with reference to the place where the cheque is delivered for collection or presented for payment through the drawee bank. Section 142-A gives the amended jurisdictional scheme overriding effect over the Code of Criminal Procedure and any prior judgment, decree, order or direction. Accordingly, the earlier rule linking jurisdiction to the stage at which evidence had commenced no longer governs such complaints. The complaint was therefore triable only by the court having jurisdiction under the amended provisions, and the contrary revisional finding was unsustainable. en-us Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:26:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=305566 For prosecutions under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, territorial jurisdiction is fixed by amended Section 142(2) with reference to the place where the cheque is delivered for collection or presented for payment through the drawee bank. Section 142-A gives the amended jurisdictional scheme overriding effect over the Code of Criminal Procedure and any prior judgment, decree, order or direction. Accordingly, the earlier rule linking jurisdiction to the stage at which evidence had commenced no longer governs such complaints. The complaint was therefore triable only by the court having jurisdiction under the amended provisions, and the contrary revisional finding was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=305566