138 Cheque Bounce Limitation
With a sudden increase in industrialisation, business transactions take place widely with payments through cheques. As mode of payment through cheques is widely used, so has the number of cases reporting the cheque dishonour and cheque bounce, which have resulted in the need to criminalise the offence of cheque bounce or dishonour. Therefore, in the year 1988, criminalisation of the written cheques was introduced in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. What is Cheque Bounce ? After the bank returns any cheque unpaid due to an insufficiency of funds in the account of the drawer and for certain other reasons, the cheque shall be called as bounced. It could also be referred to as cheque dishonour, as it is a dishonour of payment by the drawer due to some reason. The one who issues a cheque is Drawer , while the one in whose favour the cheque has been issued is the Drawee. Reasons for a Cheque Bounce ? After a cheque gets bounced, the respective B...