A cheque bounced in India: the legal notice step people skip

Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act does not start with a court filing. It starts with a written demand. Skip that step and the rest of the path collapses.

We wrote a short breakdown of the notice stage and linked the verified provision with the official text, so you can read the wording yourself instead of trusting a summary.

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