2022 (6) TMI 299

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.... For the Appellant : S. Sreevatsa, Senior Adv., Tahura Anzar and Freud Richardson, Advs For the Respondents : Raghavendra V., Adv ORDER Both these petitions call in question an order dated 25.10.2021 passed in Crl.R.P. No. 25030/2021 by the LXXIV Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Mayohall Unit, Bengaluru. 2. Heard the learned Senior counsel Sri. S. Sreevatsa, appearing for t....

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....o. 55404/2019, which arose out of the private complaint registered, the complainant files an application under Section 143A of the Negotiable Instruments Act seeking 20% of the amount of the instrument as compensation, as is available under the statute. The learned Magistrate by his order dated 18.03.2021, rejected the application on the ground that it did not contained reasons as to why the said ....

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....t has not considered these aspects of the matter while passing an order allowing the application. He would seek quashment of the said proceedings remitting the matter back to the hands of the Revisional Court for reconsideration. 6. On the other hand, the learned counsel representing the complainant would refute the submissions to contend that the incongruity in the order is removed by a correc....

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.... award interim compensation of an amount of 20% to the maximum, it can varry from 0 to 20%. The said variance is not taken note of by the Revisional Court. 9. Therefore, in my considered view, the amount of 20% be reduced to 10% in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, on the entire cheque amount for a resolution of the lis before this Court. 10. Learned Senior counsel would furt....