ORISSA HIGH COURT ISSUES ORDER ON ASHOK KUMAR PATI V/S JAGANNATH BARIK

CUTTACK, India, May 19 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on April 17:

1. The Appellant has filed the instant CRLLP under Section 378(4) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/ Section 419(4) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, invoking the appellant jurisdiction of this Court. The appeal is preferred against the Judgment dated 03.05.2021 passed by the learned J.M.F.C, Jajpur, in J.O. Code-OD-00825, in 1CC Case No. 295/2018 (T.R. No. 92/2021), whereby the Respondent has been acquitted for the offence committed under Section 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881.

I. FACTUAL MATRIX OF THE CASE:

2. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

(i) On 02.11.2018, the Appellant instituted a complaint petition, being 1...