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Research
Under s.138 proviso (b), the payee must make a demand by written notice within 30 days of receiving information from the bank that the cheque was returned. Unde… GCA s.27
Draft · complaint
3. That the statutory demand notice was returned unclaimed. [1]
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Research
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Research →Limitation for a s.138 complaint where the demand notice was returned unclaimed
Answer
Under s.138 proviso (b), the payee must make a demand by written notice within 30 days of receiving information from the bank that the chequ…
Case Law
Finds precedent — by the facts of a matter, or by the name of a case you already have in mind — across 18 million+ judgments — Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts. Search by facts when you know the fact pattern but not the citation. Search by name when you have the case and need the record around it. Either way the result points to a document, not a summary standing in for one.
Case Law →Demand notice under s.138 returned unclaimed — is service presumed?
- #1Supreme CourtVerified ✓
C. C. Alavi Haji v. Palapetty Muhammed
(2007) 6 SCC 555
- #2Supreme CourtVerified ✓
Saketh India Ltd. v. India Securities Ltd.
(1999) 3 SCC 1
Judgments
The shortest path to a document you already know you need. Enter a case name or a citation and read the judgment itself — not an abstract, the text a court actually wrote. Cross-reference the citation, move between the operative portion and the reasoning. Open it inside PleadSmart, next to the matter you are working on — no separate portal and no second login. A citation on its own is not the same as having read what it says.
Judgments →C. C. Alavi Haji v. Palapetty Muhammed
Supreme CourtPage 2 of 6 · (2007) 6 SCC 555The object of the provision is to ensure that the drawer of a cheque is afforded an opportunity to make good the payment before criminal liability attaches. That opportunity is not to be converted into an escape route by the simple expedient of declining to collect the notice.
¶14 — A notice correctly addressed and returned unclaimed is deemed served, and the drawer who avoids the postman cannot found a defence on non-receipt. Any other construction would place a premium on evasion.
DocBare
Drafts to the structure Indian courts actually expect — cause title, cause of action, prayer, verification — rather than a blank page that leaves the structure to you. Draft in the same thread as your research, and what is already there — the facts, the parties, the position you have reached — carries into the draft instead of being typed again. Draft and revise in the same thread, with no separate review pass in a different tool. This is the tool the other five feed: Research and Case Law bring the material, Case Status tells you when the filing is due, and DocBare is where it becomes the document you actually file — open next to the matter it belongs to.
DocBare →IN THE COURT OF THE CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, GORAKHPUR Complaint Case No. ____ of 2026
That the complainant is the payee of a cheque bearing no. 004512 dated 02.03.2026 drawn by the accused for a sum of ₹8,40,000.
That the said cheque was returned unpaid by the drawee bank with the endorsement ‘funds insufficient’ on 06.03.2026.
Verification
Verified at Gorakhpur on this ____ day of April, 2026, that the contents of paragraphs 1 to 3 are true to my knowledge.
Case Status
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Case Status →14 Apr 2026
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