Court Upholds Conviction in Cheque Dishonor Case; Accused Failed to Pay Despite Non-Receipt of Notice, Section 118 Applied.

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....Dishonour of Cheque - Non service of notice on the accused - Even otherwise, for the sake of argument, if this notice was not received by him, no efforts have been made by the accused to make the payment of the cheque on the first available opportunity, when, he had appeared before the learned trial Court. In such situation, the said argument is not liable to be accepted - the learned trial Court has rightly held that the presumption under Section 118 of the N.I. Act has rightly been drawn in favour of the complainant. - HC....