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2012 (2) TMI 269 - SC - Companies LawOffence committed under Negotiable Instrument Act - non-payment of debts arising out of dishonour of cheques - sanction of a scheme u/s 391 of the Companies Act, 1956 – whether such sanction amounts to compounding of an offence u/s 138 read with Section 141 of the N.I. Act - High Court held aforesaid in negative and also held that such sanction will not have the effect of termination or dismissal of complaint proceedings under N.I. Act – Held that:- In the instant appeal in most of the cases the offence under the N.I. Act has been committed prior to the scheme. Therefore, the offence which has already been committed prior to the scheme does not get automatically compounded only as a result of the said scheme. Scheme u/s 391 of the Companies Act cannot have the effect of overriding the requirement of any law. Further, basic mode and manner of effecting the compounding of an offence under Section 320 of the Criminal Procedure Code cannot be said to be not attracted in case of compounding of an offence under N.I. Act in view of Section 147 of the same. However, the main principle of such compounding, namely, the consent of the person aggrieved or the person injured or the complainant cannot be wished away nor can the same be substituted by virtue of Section 147 of N.I. Act. For the reasons aforesaid - Appeal stands dismissed.
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