SATISH KUMAR vs STATE (GOVT. NCT DELHI) & ANR.

Judgment text excerpt

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 14.11.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 864/2024 SATISH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Jitin Sahni, Mr. Gulshan Gupta and Mr. Rohit Puri, Advocates. versus STATE (GOVT. NCT DELHI) & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Satinder Singh Bawa, APP for State. Mr. Shafiq Khan, Mr. Chandan Saggu, Ms. Anjani Suri, Advocates for R-2. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner, by way of the present petition, has assailed the judgment dated 02.07.2024 [hereafter „impugned judgment‟] passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC/RC), Dwarka Courts, South-West District, New Delhi [hereafter „Appellate Court‟] in Criminal Appeal No. 167/2022, titled „Satish Kumar vs. State & Anr.‟ By the said judgment, the learned Appellate Court upheld the judgment of conviction dated 13.04.2022 and the order on sentence dated 28.04.2022, passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate (NI CRL.REV.P. 864/2024 Page 1 of 20 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:15.11.2025 17:30:42 Act-03), South-West District, Dwarka Courts, New Delhi [hereafter „Trial Court‟] in Complaint Case No. 45340/2019, titled „Bindu Mahajan vs. Satish Kumar‟, whereby the petitioner was convicted for commission of the offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 [hereafter „NI Act‟]. 2. The brief facts of the case, as alleged in the complaint filed under Section 138 of the NI Act, are that in March 2015, the petitioner-accused Satish Kumar, had approached respondent no. 2/complainant Ms. Bindu Mahajan, seeking financial assistance, pursuant to which she had advanced a friendly loan of ₹4,00,000/- to him. Thereafter, in May 2015, an additional