Verdict against man who issued dud cheque upheld

The High Appeals Court upheld the one year in prison sentence issued against a Bahraini man for issuing a cheque in bad faith.

The defendant is said to have given a dud cheque to a fellow national as part of an agreement between them to obtain all the required licences to open a restaurant and a coffee shop. The victim reported him to police after he found out that there wasn’t any money in the defendant’s account.

The defendant had argued earlier that the cheque should be cancelled because the victim didn’t adhere to the contract signed between them which stipulated him to complete the task in three months. “We agreed that he would do the job in three months, and I gave him the cheque to make our contract valid. “He didn’t finish the task in the agreed period.

Therefore, this honourable court shall deem the cheque invalid,” he said. But the court declined this claim, stating that he was obliged to pay the victim.