LAWS(BOM)-2022-6-76

POURNIMA Vs. ASHOK MANIBHAI PATEL

Decided On June 06, 2022
Pournima Appellant
V/S
Ashok Manibhai Patel Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith and with the consent of the learned counsels for the parties, heard fnally at the admission stage.

(2.) The petitioner, who is convicted for an offence punishable under sec. 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (The N.I. Act, 1881') takes exception to an order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Greater Bombay on an application (Exhibit 6) in Criminal Appeal No. 553 of 2016 dtd. 27/6/2018, whereby the prayer of the petitioner/appellant to lead additional evidence under sec. 391 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ('the Code') came to be rejected.

(3.) The background facts leading to this petition can be stated in brief as under :