A cheque returned unpaid can lead to legal proceedings, but the dishonour of a cheque does not by itself result in criminal ...

Calcutta HC quashes Section 138/141 NI Act proceedings against non-signatory Whole-Time Directors for lack of specific role averments.

Andhra Pradesh HC quashes Section 138 NI Act case as cheque drawn on erstwhile State Bank of Hyderabad was invalid after its ...

UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions have made life a lot easier by facilitating seamless and instant money transfers between banks. Despite these technological advances in payments, cheques ...

The Supreme Court has sought an authoritative ruling by a larger bench on the interplay between insolvency moratorium provisions and cheque bounce prosecutions, referring to the Chief Justice of India ...

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday said the mismatch between the amount written on a cheque and the subsequent demand notice on its dishonour was "fatal" for a case under the Negotiable ...

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 ...

The second Additional District and Sessions Court, Mangaluru, has upheld the order of a lower court issuing non-bailable warrant (NBW) to a person who failed to pay the amount as per the settlement ...

No bank or non-bank financial institution can lodge any cheque dishonour case to recover defaulted loans from now onwards, as ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...