HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 37064 of 2025 Court No. - 75 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Vakalatnama filed by Sri B.K. Pandey, on behalf of opposite party no.2 is taken on record. 2. Supplementary affidavit filed today is taken on record. 3. Heard Sri Mohit Singh along with Sri Shikhar Neelkanth learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Pankaj Srivastava, learned AGA for the State and Sri Sagir Ahmad Senior Counsel assisted by Sri B.K. Pandey along with Sri Mohd. Raghib Ali, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2. 4. A joint statement has been made by the learned counsel for the parties that they do not propose to file any affidavits and the application be decided on the basis of the documents available on record. With the consent of the parties, the application is being decided at the fresh stage. 5. This is an application under Section 528 of BNSS preferred by the applicant for quashing the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No.1371/2025 (Hardev Singh vs. Madan Mohan Tiwari), under section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, Police Station Khajuriya, District Rampur pending in the Court of Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division)- 1/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur and also to quash the impugned summoning order dated 11.08.2025 passed by the learned Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division)-1/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur. 6. The case of the applicant is that a complaint stood lodged on 10.06.2025 by the O.P. No.2 under Section 138 of N.I. Act against the applicant with an allegation that the applicant herein had drawn a cheque bearing no. 944754 dated 9.4.2025 of Rs.40,00,000/- which on presentation in the bank came to Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Mohit Singh, Ravi Kumar Singh, Shikhar Neelkanth Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Madan Mohan Tiwari .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) be dishonoured on 03.05.2025 returning dishonour cheque memo was served upon the opposite party no.2 on 5.5.2025 followed by a statutory demand notice dated 15.5.2025 and the complaint on 10.6.2025 and the applicant came to be summoned under Section 138 of the N.I. Act on 11.8.2025. 7. 7. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that a bare perusal of the complaint would make it more than evident that the complainant happens to be the resident of Rampur whereas the applicant has been shown to be resident of Lucknow/Sitapur, according to him mandatory enquiry under Section 202(1) of the Cr.P.C./Section 225 (1) B.N.S.S. has not been conducted, attention has been drawn towards paragraph 17 of the application. 8. Submission is that in view of the judgement of the Hon. Apex Court in In Re: Expeditious Trial of Cases U/s 138 of the N.I. Act, 2021 SCC OnLine SC 325 followed in Bansilal S. Kabra Vs. Global Trade Finance Limited & another: (2024) LawSuit(Bom) 325, the Magistrate was under obligation to conduct a mandatory enquiry under Section 202 (1) of the Cr.P.C. which has not been done.. 9. Sri Sageer Ahmad learned Senior Counsel appears for the opposite party no.2 has submitted that according to him the mandatory enquiry as per Section 202(1) Cr.P.C./ Section 225 (1) B.N.S.S. has not been conducted and the matter be remitted back to the court below to pass a fresh order from the stage of conducting enquiry under Section 202(1) Cr.P.C. 10. Learned AGA has supported the arguments of learned counsel for the opposite party no.2. 11. I have heard the submissions so made across the Bar and perused the record carefully. 12. Apparently, from the complaint itself it is apparent that the applicant is the resident of Lucknow/Sitapur whereas the complainant is of Rampur and nothing is forthcoming with regard to conduction of enquiry under Section 202(1) Cr.P.C./Section 225(1) B.N.S.S. and also regarding the compliance of the first proviso of the said provision. Since it is the stand of the counsel for the opposite party no.2 that the order is set aside, matter be remitted back to the court below to pass a fresh order. 13. Accordingly the application is being decided in the following terms:.(a) summoning order dated 11.08.2025 passed by the learned Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division)-1/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur is set aside, (b) matter stands remitted back to the court below to pass a fresh order, (c) for facilitation and early disposal the applicant shall submit the certified copy of the order passed today by 10.10.2025. NA528 No. 37064 of 2025 2 14. The applications stand disposed of. September 24, 2025 piyush NA528 No. 37064 of 2025 3 (Vikas Budhwar,J.) Digitally signed by :- PIYUSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad