GURVINDER SINGH TOOR vs ROHIT MALHOTRA

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 01.08.2025 CRL.M.C. 1474/2022 & CRL.M.A. 6375/2022 GURVINDER SINGH TOOR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sagar Pathak, Advocate. versus ROHIT MALHOTRA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Arjun Dewan and Mr. Akash Arora, Advocates. CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner has approached this Court by way of this petition, seeking quashing of the Complaint Case No. 2435/2020, titled “Rohit Malhotra v. Gurvinder Singh Toor” under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 [hereafter „NI Act‟] pending before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, West District, Tis Hazari Court, Delhi [hereafter „Magistrate‟]. FACTUAL BACKGROUND 2. Brief facts of the case, as set out in the petition and evident from the complaint filed in this case, are that the petitioner is the Principal Director of a company incorporated under the name Zoi CRL.M.C. 1474/2022 2020. The respondent had initially met the petitioner along with one Mr. Manish Alag in November 2018 to discuss a business project aimed at establishing a branch of the Company in Thailand. Pursuant to these discussion