Cheque given in good faith
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Anonymous
(Querist) 09 January 2011
This query is : Resolved
My father passed away and left us his office which is on the pagdi system. We tried to sell it and accordingly found a buyer and negotiated the deal with him. He paid us Rs 11,000 in cash. There was an outstanding rent payable of Rs 3750/- and for which we gave him a chq on which the name was mispelt. He took another cheque which was blank as the name of the landlord was not correctly spelt on the earlier cheque but had "Not over Rs 4,000 only" printed on it as we were travelling and the buyer was in a hurry to complete the deal as he felt the stamp duty would be levied from the 1st of Jan 2010. A few days later he issued the cheque to himself and made it out for Rs14,000. by tampering it and adding 1 before the 4000?-. Accordingly the cheque bounced. He also cancelled the sale deal and filed a case under sec 138 against us on the cheque dishonour. He sent us a notice and we tried to meet him on 2 occasions and even had an inspector approach him to settle the matter and accept Rs 11,000 but he refused and insisted that we pay him Rs 14,000.
We registered our statement at the police station. The matter is now in court and although we are willing to pay him the 14,000 he is not willing to settle what should be our defence now? He wants us now to pay him Rs 35,000/- ??
