2025 (7) TMI 1630

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....where the appellant was required to file his complaints in relation to offences punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for brevity, 'N.I. Act'). 3. The appellant's case was that Keyur Lalitbhai Rajpopat borrowed a sum of Rs.. 38,50,000/- from him and the respondent herein, viz., Jagruti Keyur Rajpopat, being the wife of Keyur Lalitbhai Rajpopat, stood as a guarantor....

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.... Court, stating that the drawee bank was Kotak Mahindra Bank at Mumbai and, therefore, his Court had no territorial jurisdiction to entertain the complaint cases. 4. Aggrieved thereby, the appellant approached the High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru under Section 482 Cr.P.C., vide Criminal Petition Nos. 1237, 1720, 1769 and 1770 of 2024. However, the High Court confirmed the order passed by the ....

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....a counter-affidavit along with details of her own account with Kotak Mahindra Bank. Her account statement dated 25.11.2024 reflects the account number of the appellant as 0412108431. The appellant placed on record the letter issued by the Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bendurwell, Mangalore Branch, certifying that his account number in that Branch is 0412108431. The learned counsel for the respondent fairly....

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....llection through an account, the branch of the bank where the payee maintains the account is situated. This provision, as it stands after its amendment in 2015, was considered in Bridgestone India Private Limited vs. Inderpal Singh (2016) 2 SCC 75 and this Court affirmed that Section 142(2)(a) of the N.I. Act vests jurisdiction apropos an offence under Section 138 thereof in the Court where the ch....