16/09/2026
Cheque Bounce Case किस Court में File होगा? | Section 138 NI Act | Supreme Court on Jurisdiction
Jai Balaji Industries Ltd. & Ors. v. M/s HEG Ltd. (2025 INSC 1362) — Supreme Court of India (Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan), decided 28 November 2025 — : Post the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2015, territorial jurisdiction for cheque-dishonour cases under Section 138 lies with the court where the payee/holder maintains the bank account where the cheque was deposited for collection — not where the drawer's bank or the drawee branch is situated — and even if the cheque is deposited at a different branch of the payee's bank, Section 142(2) read with its Explanation deems it to have been deposited at the payee's home branch; the Court held the pre-2015 rule in Dashrath Rupsingh Rathod v. State of Maharashtra (2014) no longer applies post-amendment,
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