Summary:
more-inObserving that “cheque bounce cases need to be tackled with a heavy hand,” a Delhi court has sentenced a man to one-year imprisonment in a cheque bounce case. “Cheque bounce cases are unduly clogging the dockets of courts leading to docket explosion and extraction of judicial time, which can be given to other cases,” Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Kumar observed while awarding the sentence. Lalit Kumar had issued a cheque of ?1 lakh to the wife of an Army officer. Thereafter, the complainant sent a notice to the accused seeking payment of the amount due. The complainant then filed a complaint in the court seeking prosecution of the accused..