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Corporate Law : Proposal to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shr...
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Corporate Law : MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 29th December, 2015 The following Act of Parliament received t...
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The Modi government in a bit to improve ease of doing business and unclogging courts has decided that 39 sections in 19 different Acts, which have been identified, shall be decriminalised. The government intends to do away with minor financial offences and has sought comments from the stakeholders against this move of decriminalisation as they […]
Bhupendra Suryawanshi Vs Sai Traders (Madhya Pradesh) The proviso to Section 138, however, is all important and stipulates three distinct conditions precedent, which must be satisfied before the dishonour of a cheque can constitute an offence and become punishable. The first condition is that the cheque ought to have been presented to the bank within […]
Supreme Court dismisses PIL seeking exclusion of lockdown period for limitation purposes of bank instruments. Stay up to date with the latest legal developments.
In simple terms, a cheque is defined as a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person’s account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. There are other legal definitions as well which are referred frequently to understand the meaning of the term ‘cheque’. […]
It is hereby ordered that all periods of limitation prescribed under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 shall be extended with effect from 15.03.2020 till further orders to be passed by this Court in the present proceedings.
Through this write up, a statutory and judicial light is focused on the different aspects of procedure and provisions set up in cases related to Dishonour of Cheques as enshrined in Chapter XVII decoding form Section 138 to Section 148 of The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. Introduction and objective :- Negotiable Instrument act was enacted […]
Sunita Palta & Ors. Vs. Kit Marketing Pvt. Ltd. (Madras High Court) Non-Executive Directors are, therefore, persons who are not involved in the day-to-day affairs of the running of the company and are not in charge of and not responsible for the conduct of the business of the company.’ Admittedly, the petitioners are neither the […]
Article discusses Union Budget 2017 provisions related to ELECTORAL BOND. It discusses if the same is a legal weapon to curb and mitigate illegitimate funding for political parties.
The prosecution of an accused under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1888, is not hit by the bar created by sub-section (2) of Section 69 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932.
D. K. Chandel Vs Wockhardt Ltd. & Anr. (Supreme Court) The Supreme Court has observed that the production of the account books/cash book may not be relevant in a criminal case filed under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. As held by the Trial Court as well as by the High Court that the […]