Supreme court’s big decision on cheque bounce cases: Creation of additional courts, committee constituted to give suggestions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a committee under the chairmanship of a former Bombay High Court judge to consider the suggestions and submit a report in three months specifying the steps to be taken for early disposal of cheque bounce cases across the country.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Centre has in principle accepted the need for creating additional courts to deal with such cases, after the modalities are worked out on the issue.
The top court had last week termed the pendency of over 35 lakhs cheque bounce cases as grotesque and suggested to the Centre to come up with a law to create additional courts for a particular period of time to deal with such cases.
