RAJENDRA SINGH vs SAROJ SINGH

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 14.11.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 19/2024 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 10/2024 RAJENDRA SINGH .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Manish Raghav, Advocate. versus SAROJ SINGH .....Respondent Through: Mr. Bhagwan Jha, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of the present revision petition, the petitioner is seeking setting aside of the impugned judgment and order dated 07.07.2023 passed by the learned Additional and Sessions Judge-05, Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Sessions Court‟] vide which the judgment dated 31.08.2020 passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate (NI-02), South-East, Saket Courts, Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] was upheld. 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case, are that the petitioner, who was a property dealer by profession, had sold a property measuring 167.40 sq. yards situated at Radha Kunj Colony, CRL. REV.P. 19/2024 Page 1 of 10 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:15.11.2025 17:30:42 Sikandra, Agra, to the respondent on 06.11.1987; however, the possession of the same had not been handed over to the respondent. A settlement agreement had been arrived at between the parties on 27.09.2015, wherein it had been agreed that the petitioner would pay an amount of ₹6,48,000/- to the respondent, and the respondent would not claim any right over the said property. In pursuance thereof, the petitioner had handed over the cheques in question as per the said settlement agreement. It had been the case of the petitioner that he had issued a cheque for ₹6,48,000/- as consideration, which had been dishonoured on 11.01.2016. The respondent had thereafter filed a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrum