Hi. I have textile business (Hosiery Manufacturer) in Ludhiana, I usually sell hosiery goods to other cities, On e of my friend name Sumit used to provide me Hosiery goods material from market, everything was going good, but Nov 1, I was looking for some good quantity of hosiery material so my friend Summit introduce with his friend name Gaurav, he was ready to provide me that material in that quantity. But he asked me for advance payment, with the reffrence of Summit, I agree to give him advance payment ceques , I provide them 6 cheques for security or you can say advance payment cheques for my order. After one week he start delaying and excusing for my order, As summit was my good friend so I beleive him. I got an dishonour sms from bank that my cheque got failed, I call to Summit as well Gaurav, why the heck they are encashing my cheque, cos I haven't got any delevery yet. Summit told me that it was purely mistake by Gaurav, so he will retuerned my cheque back asap.
After two or three days, I was fed up with calls to Sumit nd Gaurav, so I went to Gaurav home and ask for my cheques and cancelled my order, he said he misplaced the cheque in office, when ever he got them , he will return to me, on same day evening, I call him on his number, he start blackmailing me and ask for 2 lackhs in favor of that cheques, I said why should I pay you as you was unable to provide my order, He threaten me to file a case of cheque bounced against me, I went to Bank Nov 19 and write an stop payment letter with cheque book lost application. Next day Gaurav start dishonouing my two cheques.
Now my question, how can I defence from this blackmailing bounce case.
1.) There was no date on cheques with no payee name,. only digit amount and signature was there.
2.) One of my Cheque dishonoured for Insufficent fund.
3) Other two cheques bounced due to stop payment.
4.) There was no written deal no evidence that he provide me anything.
5.) even sumit did fraud with me of12.4 lackh, as he always works on advance payment mode.
Now I am worried about Cheque bounced cases, My question is how can they file a case against me, without any evidence, don't they need to provide any evidence or any deleivery proof.
Please point me in good direction as total amount of cheques is 18 lackh, Can I file a comaplaint against them, but I also do not have any evidence of deal. Please help me out :(
Sorry for my bad english
Regards
Varun