The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that a xerox copy of a cheque can be admitted as secondary evidence in a criminal proceeding under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, if the trial court had previously verified the original document before it was subsequently lost. Justice Shamim Ahmed, setting aside a trial
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