2003 (7) TMI 485

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....provides penalties in case of dishonour of cheques due to insufficiency of funds in the account of the drawer of the cheque. These provisions were incorporated with a view to encourage the culture of use of cheques and enhancing the credibility of the instrument. Unamended law provided not only a cumbersome procedure but punishment was also inadequate. Courts were unable to dispose of such cases expeditiously in a time bound manner. Keeping in view the large number of cases pending in various courts in the country, the Legislature by enacting section 143 of the Act prescribed for summary trial of the cases under this Act and mandated that so far as practicable consistently with the interests of justice trial shall be continued from day-to-d....

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....ey but also forced him to shell out more money, time and suffer agony by way of filing a private complaint before the Metropolitan Magistrate. 6. In view of the provisions of section 143 of the Act and the agony the petitioner will undergo if such inordinately long dates are given, the request of the petitioner for directing the trial court to prepone the date is justified. The petition is allowed. The learned trial court is directed to prepone the date keeping in view the provisions of section 143 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. For the aforesaid purpose the petitioner shall appear before the learned trial court on 10th September, 2003. 7. Since this court is having many petitions like this and several years are being taken in disposi....