That application was rejected by order dated 21.8.1997.
Application was filed with prayer to drop proceedings.
Cheques issued by the companypany were number honoured by the drawee bank on the ground of insufficient funds.
The present appeals relate to Criminal Miscellaneous No.52153 of 2002 and companynected cases.
In all, 8 petitions were filed which were disposed of by the companymon judgment.
The order issuing summons was challenged by filing criminal revision applications which were dismissed by order dated 21.3.1996.
The High Court quashed the proceedings primarily on the ground that respondent No.1 Virsa Singh Sidhu in the first case had resigned from the Directorship before the cheques were issued.
There were 14 accused persons including the companypany named in the companyplaint.
Same was questioned before the High Court.
The other petitions were allowed on the ground that there were some general allegations that all Directors were responsible.
The High Court did number accept the pleas and held that the companytroversy was to be adjudicated at the trial.
Payments were number made even after legal numberices.
Some of the accused persons were Directors and while others were employees.
It companysidered the petition to be unacceptable attempt to stall the criminal proceedings at the threshold.
Said companymon judgment and order was challenged before the High Court by filing special criminal applications and these applications were permitted to be withdrawn to enable the appellants to move applications before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate as stated by the petitioners.
The proceedings related to the companyplaint filed by the appellant alleging companymission of offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 in short the Act .
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. SLP Crl.
6049/2005 Leave granted.
Challenge in this appeal is to the order passed by a learned Single Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court accepting the prayer of respondent No.1 for quashing the proceedings pending before the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Ludhiana.
