2024 (10) TMI 886

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.... Ravindra Singh for Mr. Sudhir Saruparia. For the Respondent : Mr. Urja Ram Kalbi, PP. ORDER This application for grant of leave to file appeal has been filed by complainant-Ashraj Stone Pvt. Ltd. against the order dated 13.09.2022 passed in Case No.251/2018, where-under the sole respondent has been acquitted of the charge under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. It is not ....

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....any other law for the time being in force: Provided that the victim shall have a right to prefer an appeal against any order passed by the Court acquitting the accused or convicting for a lesser offence or imposing inadequate compensation, and such appeal shall lie to the Court to which an appeal ordinarily lies against the order of conviction of such Court. Evidently, the victim shall....

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....ittal is passed in any case instituted upon complaint. Learned counsel for the applicant has referred to the provisions of sub-Section 4 of Section 419 of the BNSS, which is reproduction of Section 378(4) Cr.P.C. The said provision reads as follows: "378(4) If such an order of acquittal is passed in any case instituted upon complaint and the High Court, on an application made to it by ....