Company includes partnership firm | Section 141 | Negotiable Instruments Act

G Ramesh Vs Kanike Harish Kumar Ujwal & Anr. (Supreme Court of India) In terms of the explanation to Section 141, the expression ‘company’ has been defined to mean any body corporate and to include a firm or other association of Sub-section (1) of Section 141 postulates that where an offence is committed under Section 138 by a company, the company as well as every person who, at the time when the offence was committed, was in charge of and was responsible to the company for the conduct of the business shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence.  In determining as to whether t...