https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=444090 An offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 may be compounded even after conviction when the parties have settled the dispute and the complainant does not object, because Section 147 overrides the general scheme of the Criminal Procedure Code. On that basis, the conviction and sentence were set aside. The graded compounding-cost regime may also be reduced in appropriate cases for recorded reasons, and the Court exercised that discretion having regard to the petitioner's financial condition. The compounding fee was therefore scaled down to a token amount, and the matter was closed on compounding terms. en-us Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:48:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=444090 An offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 may be compounded even after conviction when the parties have settled the dispute and the complainant does not object, because Section 147 overrides the general scheme of the Criminal Procedure Code. On that basis, the conviction and sentence were set aside. The graded compounding-cost regime may also be reduced in appropriate cases for recorded reasons, and the Court exercised that discretion having regard to the petitioner's financial condition. The compounding fee was therefore scaled down to a token amount, and the matter was closed on compounding terms. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=444090