https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=450660 Section 91 CrPC permits summoning documents only when they are necessary or desirable for the inquiry or trial, and a broad, unfocused request in a Section 138 NI Act complaint cannot be used for a fishing or roving search. Where the defence is already disclosed through the Section 251 CrPC plea and the Section 145(2) NI Act application, cross-examination remains confined to the dishonour complaint and rebuttal of the Section 139 presumption. The documents sought here were found largely unrelated to that limited controversy, so their summoning was unjustified; any genuine non-production could later be addressed through adverse inference if relevance was established. en-us Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:56:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=450660 Section 91 CrPC permits summoning documents only when they are necessary or desirable for the inquiry or trial, and a broad, unfocused request in a Section 138 NI Act complaint cannot be used for a fishing or roving search. Where the defence is already disclosed through the Section 251 CrPC plea and the Section 145(2) NI Act application, cross-examination remains confined to the dishonour complaint and rebuttal of the Section 139 presumption. The documents sought here were found largely unrelated to that limited controversy, so their summoning was unjustified; any genuine non-production could later be addressed through adverse inference if relevance was established. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=450660