Notice by an individual payee to the individual drawer when more than one cheque is dishonoured with the endorsement “Account Closed” on the returning memo

Updated atDecember 2009

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Office: ........................

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Residence: ........................

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Date: ........................

Regd. A.D./U.P.C

To

Name .............................

Address...........................

Subject: Dishonour of Cheque

Sir,

I have to serve you with the following legal notice:

  1. That as you know that I am running the business of Brass Rods (hereinafter called goods) and I am the main stockist and dealer of the same. I am doing the business of dealing in..................... in my personal name.

  2. That you have been purchasing the said rods from me since.......... (give the date of first dealing or the estimated period of relationship) and due to the faith I reposed in you, I permitted you to the taking of delivery of goods from me against the issue of cheques for the amount payable in respect of the goods purchased.

  3. That besides the goods you have paid for, you purchased goods and issued the cheques with the following description:

    Cheque No. Invoice No. Date of Cheque Amount Drawee bank
    (i)
    (ii)
    (iii)
    (iv)
  4. That above said cheques were issued at the time of delivery of goods promising that on the presentment of the said cheques they will be honoured.

  5. That the above stated cheques have been dishonoured on their presentment with the endorsement "Account Closed" on ............ (Date) vide Returning Memo Nos. ............, ............., ............., ............. of which I got the information on ............... (Date) from the bank. That in fact you didn''t have sufficient funds in your account to honour the cheque you had issued and to avoid the liability under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 as amended upto date, you got your account closed before I could present the same for encashment. Had I known that on their presentment the cheques so issued would be dishonoured I would never have delivered those goods.

  6. That in all, the cheques which were issued by you in discharge of your liability/debt have been dishonoured for the factual reason of insufficiency of funds.

  7. That thereafter I have been running from pillar to post to contact you but you have been avoiding the same.

  8. That now I have understood that you issued the cheques to me against the delivery of goods for the amount which you never had in your account at the time of issue of cheques and, therefore, it can be...

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