https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=784560 In a prosecution for dishonour of cheque, the dominant issue was whether an appellate court could insist on pre-deposit of compensation as a condition for entertaining the appeal under s.148 of the NI Act and whether the accused could avoid that requirement by seeking production of documents under s.91 CrPC. The HC held that no "exceptional" or "special" reasons were shown to dispense with the statutory pre-deposit and rejected the s.91 request. The SC found no ground to interfere with that assessment on the facts and declined to disturb the conditional admission of appeal and rejection of the s.91 application; the SLP was dismissed. en-us Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:19:11 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=784560 In a prosecution for dishonour of cheque, the dominant issue was whether an appellate court could insist on pre-deposit of compensation as a condition for entertaining the appeal under s.148 of the NI Act and whether the accused could avoid that requirement by seeking production of documents under s.91 CrPC. The HC held that no "exceptional" or "special" reasons were shown to dispense with the statutory pre-deposit and rejected the s.91 request. The SC found no ground to interfere with that assessment on the facts and declined to disturb the conditional admission of appeal and rejection of the s.91 application; the SLP was dismissed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=784560