Cc No:3214/13 Smt. Jyoti Kalra vs Satinder Kumar Verma on 20 December, 2013
60.I have already noted in the preceding paras the settled legal position that
Sections 118 and 139 NII Act introduce an exception to the general rule as to
the burden of proof in criminal cases and shift the onus on to the accused. If
the accused is proved to have discharged the initial onus of proof showing that
the existence of consideration was improbable or doubtful or the same was
illegal, the onus would shift to the complainant who would be obliged to prove
it as a matter of fact. However, as the accused miserably failed to rebut the
said presumtions, the onus never shifted upon the Complainant in the present
case to prove the debt/liability or to prove the agreement Exh. CW1/A. The
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decisions in AIR 1928 PC 38, AIR 1965 Ori 126 and (1965) 2 Cr.LJ 107
(supra), Madholal Sindhu Vs. Asian Assurance Co. Ltd. & Ors. (1954) 56
BOMLR 147 (supra) and Dattatraya Vs. Rangnath Gopal Rao
Kawathekar AIR 1971 SC 2548 (supra) relied upon by the accused would
have been applicable only when the onus would have shited to the
Complainant. That not being the case, the ratio of the above authorities also
has no application to the facts of the present case.