Complainant's averment in affidavit suffices for private complaint under NI Act despite absence in complaint.

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

....The HC held that a power of attorney holder, aware of the case facts and making an averment in the affidavit, is competent to lodge a private complaint u/s 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, even if such averment is absent in the complaint itself. The petition to quash the complaint was dismissed, leaving open the maintainability of a second petition u/s 482 CrPC.....