Supreme Court of India

Surinder Singh Deswal @ Col. S.S. Deswal and Others v. Virender Gandhi

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Reported as [2019] 8 S.C.R. 746
Bench M. R. Shah and A. S. Bopanna JJ.
Decided 29 May 2019

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, we see no reason to interfere with the impugned common judgment and order passed by the High Court dismissing the revision application/s, confirming the order passed by the first appellate court directing t he appellants to deposit 25% of the amount of fine/compensation pending appeals.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881: ss.138, 148 – Depo sit of fine or compensation for suspension of sentence – Wh ether s.148 as amended by Act no.20/2018 shall not be applicable with respec t to criminal proceedings already initiated prior to the amendme nt to s.148 of NI Act – Held: s.148 as amended, shall be ap plicable in respect of the appeals against the order of conviction and s entence for the offence under s.138, even in a case where t he criminal complaints for the offence under s.138 were filed prior to amendment Act No. 20/2018 i.e., prior to 01.09.2018 – By the a mendment in

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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