Court sends man to jail for fraud

KANPUR: Special metropolitan magistrate JP Agarwal on Saturday convicted Raj Kishore Bajpai under Negotiable Instrument Act (cheque bouncing) case and punished him with a fine of Rs 7.92 lakh and simple imprisonment of one year. The magistrate observed that if accused failed to pay fine then he had to suffer another jail term of three months. Petitioner Shiv Prasad had claimed that accused Raj Kishore Bajpai had realized a sum of Rs 3.96 lakh under pretext of installation of a mobile tower at his house.When the company failed to install mobile tower, he demanded his sum and Raj Kishore paid the amount through cheque.
The cheque was dishonored when Shiv Prasad presented it for encashment in the bank. During trial, Raj Kishore made an abortive attempt to prove complainant a liar though Shiv Prasad was his relative.
Acquitted: Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Satya Dev Gupta on Saturday acquitted Nutan Anand and Prakash Anand, when prosecution failed to produce evidence in last 16 years. During trial, complainant Raj Kumar also died. A truck of transport company had loaded 546 aluminum bricks from Renukoot in Sonbhadra in July 1994. When truck did not reach at its destination, the transport company lodged a report with Naubasta police and stated that cleaner of truck had briefed him about the disappearance of truck. He informed that driver Doodh Nath Patel had sold five aluminum bricks to Nutan Anand and Prakash Anand and thereafter he disappeared.
The police registered a case under Section 406 IPC. During trial, prosecution failed to produce evidence before the court in last 16 years.