In simple words, a cheque is an order to a bank to pay a particular sum of money from the account of the issuer of the cheque, written on a specifically printed form. The issuer of the cheque is ...

The company filed a cheque bounce complaint against Varma's firm in 2018. Varma was acquitted earlier this month in view of the "compromise memo", as per the court order. A compromise memo is a ...

The law related to cheque bounce has undergone a change in recent times in the UAE. The law on cheque bounce in the UAE is codified in the Federal Law No 18 of 1993 concerning commercial transactions ...

The police do not directly register an FIR in cases of a check bounce. If the matter is of a civil or criminal nature, the police register a case. In such cases, the person must file a complaint in ...

Kalyan, Dec 26: In a significant ruling underscoring the financial accountability of elected representatives, the Kalyan District Additional Sessions Court has convicted former Kalyan-Dombivli ...

A bench of justices Aravind Kumar and Sandeep Mehta said the offence of dishonour of cheque was mainly a civil wrong. The Supreme Court said a person can avoid a jail term after being convicted in a ...

Expressing concern over the pendency of “staggeringly high” number of cheque dishonour cases in district courts of major cities, the Supreme Court has issued fresh guidelines to reduce the backlog ...

Delhi has emerged as the ‘cheque-bounce capital’ of India, with over 5.55 lakh cases pending in trial courts under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act). According to court statistics ...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has held that a director who is an admitted signatory to a cheque that got dishonoured cannot evade prosecution claiming resignation, especially when the genuineness ...

Thane, Dec 05: A Thane court has convicted a Mumbai businessman for issuing two cheques that bounced, directing him to pay Rs 60 lakh in compensation and sentencing him to one year of simple ...

MUMBAI: A Mumbai court has acquitted filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma in a 2018 cheque bounce case, after the matter was settled between him and the complainant company through a Lok Adalat. The company ...