Man pays with punishment in cheque bounce case

Vadodara: A local court has directed a resident of Dabhoi Road to cough up an amount double than what he had failed to repay to his friend in January 2017.
The court of judicial magistrate P J Raichura also sentenced the man Bharat Solanki to simple imprisonment for a year as a cheque he had given towards the payment was returned by the bank.
According to details of the case, Solanki had borrowed Rs 28,000 from the complainant Ghulam Kadar Sheikh and given him a post-dated cheque. When Sheikh deposited the cheque in his account in April 2017, it was returned by his bank citing insufficient funds. When Solanki was confronted, he said that he would repay the amount as he did not have money then.
A month later, Solanki gave another cheque to Sheikh which was also returned for the same reason. Sheikh sent a legal notice to Solanki as he misbehaved with him when again asked for payment. As Solanki refused to accept the legal notice, Sheikh approached the court to register a criminal case against Solanki under the Negotiables Instruments Act.
After the trial, the court found Solanki guilty and asked him to pay a fine of Rs 56,000 of which Rs 42,000 will be paid to Sheikh.