Cheque with signature but undated.

By issuing a signed blank cheque, your friend gave you the authority to fill up the agreed sum.That undated cheque can be completed by you, but the completion is fully effective only if it is done within a reasonable time.Please take note that usually the Bankers invalidate their issued chequebooks after expiry of few years and whether your friend after going to America is maintaining that bank account or not is also a matter of fact.

dear just fill in the date and submit the cheque for paymnets in bank, if its dishonoured get the memo.

But if you file the case under 138 NIA read with 142 NIA , the question is how acn you serve the notice./ warrants.

Anyway you fulfil the legal requiremnt and file the above criminal complaint. 

Besides file a suit for recovery of money and make his brothers and father whosoever availble in India as party, need to mention thay collectively took money . Just in this way you may get some benifits 

Money given to friends and relatives is always a charity in the garb of loan which is given in expectation of refund but always taken with intention of non-refund.

Such loan is taken by a person:-

(i)    Who lacks business sense and cannot raise funds out of his own business and suddenly wants to be rich.

(ii)    who cannot raise bank loan because :-
 
Either
he himself is not creditworthy

Or
 the purpose for which he seeks loan is illegal

or
the purpose for which he seeks loan is not at all commercially viable.

(iii)     Who knows he can afford not to refund.
(iv)    Who trusts his thick skin
(v)    Who intends not to refund
(vi)    Who has made fortification against action of refund.

So he has to find someone who can part with his money. So he finds a lender near him (friend or relative)

Such loans are given by the persons :-

(i)    Who has surplus money.
(ii)    Who displays and boasts of such surplus money.
(iii)    Who stupidly believe that there will be a refund.
(iv)    Fails to realise as to why he alone (not bank) is being contacted for loan.
(v)    Who has extreme trust on the debtor
(vi)    who are either stupid or extremely greedy of the unusual (or illegal) rate of interest.

Such loans are always given

(i)    Without documentation.
(ii)    Without witness
(iii)    Without guarantor.
(iv)    During cordial relations

Soon after giving such loan :-

(a)    Relations are no more remain cordial
(b)    Business started by such money  (easy money belonging to other) invariably fails.
(c)    Such loans always sink and not refunded.
(d)    Person seeking such refund suffers at legal process.
(e)    Person seeking such refund legally or by persuasion is socially criticised.