Recently, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh HC stated that the nature of offence under Section 138 of NI Act is quasi-criminal, the law imposes a criminal penalty in the form of imprisonment or fine. The bench of Justice Javed Iqbal Wani was dealing with the petition seeking quashment of order passed by the court
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