PREM CHAND VIJAY KUMAR Vs. YASH PAL SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Challenge in this appeal is to the legality of the judgment rendered by a learned Single Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court holding that the proceedings initiated on the basis of a complaint alleging infraction of Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 (in short the Act) was not maintainable. Therefore, the proceedings were quashed, allowing the petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short the Code).

(3.) Background facts filtering out unnecessary details are as under: