Supreme Court of India

Dhanasingh Prabhu v. Chandrasekar & Another

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 655
Bench B.V. Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma JJ.
Decided 14 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court was not right in rejecting or dismissing the complaint for the reason that the partnership firm was not arraigned as an accused in the complaint or that notice had not been issued to it under Section 138 of the Act.

Judgment, page 37

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court was right in dismissing the complaint on the ground that the name of the partnership firm was not mentioned in the statutory notice issued by the appellant/complainant to the respondents u/s.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 and was also not arraigned as an accused in the complaint filed by the appellant/complainant. Headnotes† Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 – ss.138, 141 – Partnership Act, 1932 – Appellant-complainant advanced a loan of Rs.21,00,000/- to the respondent nos.1 and 2 (a partneship firm) for business purposes – In order

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