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by the plaintiff and upon filling up the two promissory notes, has misused the same by filing the instant suit. It is a normal practice that a person, whose signed cheques/instruments are lost or misplaced, immediately informs his banker about the same so as to stop the misuse of the cheques. He is also expected to get a notice published in this regard in a newspaper in order to stop misuse of the signed blank promissory notes. Admittedly, the defendants neither intimated their banker about the lost/misplacement of the signed blank cheques nor issued any notice in any newspaper to inform the general public about the loss/misplacement of the signed blank promissory notes. Further, if the defendants were of the impression that the bag lost by defendant no. 4 was found/stolen by the plaintiff, they were also expected to lodge FIR against him for the theft of promissory notes and for committing forgery upon those promissory notes by filling up those in his own name. That also has not been done by the defendants.