IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. OF 2024 (ARISING FROM SLP (CRL.) NOS. 12798-12805/2024)
K. PRANIL REDDY ... APPELLANT(S)
Versus
STATE OF TELANGANA & ORS. ... RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R
Leave granted.
2. Despite service of notice, no one has
entered appearance on behalf of respondent nos.
2, 3 and 4, complainant/legal heirs of the
original complainant. However, respondent no.1-
the State of Telangana is represented through
its counsel.
3. Concurrently, all the three courts
have convicted the appellant-herein for an
offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable
Instruments Act, 1881. The Trial Court had
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awarded six months substantive sentences in
each of the 8 connected matters where 8
cheques of an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees
Five Lakhs only) each had been dishonoured. It
had further directed the appellant to pay the
cheque amount for each of the 8 cheques along
with a fine amount equivalent to 50% of the
same i.e. to say Rs. 7,50,000/- (Rupees Seven
Lakhs and Fifty Thousand only) per case. It
also directed that all the sentences both
substantive and default would run consecutively
for each of the cases. The appeal filed by the
appellant was dismissed by the Sessions Court.
4. Before the High Court in revision,
partial relief was granted to the appellant to
the extent that the substantive sentence in all
the 8 cases of...