Notice by an Advocate on behalf of an individual payee to the individual drawer when more than one cheque is dishonoured

Updated atDecember 2009

Name: ........................

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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,

For and on behalf on my client(s) M/s. .......................... (Name and address of business entity or the individual, as the case may be), I have to serve you with the following legal notice:

  1. That as you know that my client(s) are running the business of Brass Rods (hereinafter called goods) and they are the main stockist and dealer of the same. They are doing the business of dealing in Brass Rods in his personal name.

  2. That you have been purchasing the said rods from my client(s) since.......... (give the date of first dealing or the estimated period of relationship) and due to the faith my client(s) reposed in you, they started allowing you to take the delivery of goods from them 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 in favour of my client(s) with the following description:

    Cheque No. Invoice No. Date of Cheque Amount Drawee bank
  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 cheque has been dishonoured on its presentment with the endorsement "Insufficiency of Funds in the Account of the Drawer" on ............. (Date) vide Returning Memo No. ........... of which my client(s) got the information on ................(Date) from the bank. Had my client(s) known that on its presentment the cheque so issued would be dishonoured, my client(s) would never have delivered those goods.

  6. That in all, the cheque which was issued by you in discharge of your liability/debt has been dishonoured for the reason of insufficiency of funds.

  7. That thereafter my client(s) have been running from pillar to post to contact you but you have been avoiding the same.

  8. That having understood that you issued the cheque to my client(s) against the delivery of goods for the amount which you never had in your account at the time of issue of cheque and, therefore, it can be inferred that you took the delivery of such...

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