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Bare acts > Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 > Section 131
 
  


 

131. Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque.- A banker who has in good faith and without negligence received payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself shall not, in case the title to the cheque proves defective, incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.

Explanation I —A banker receives payment of a crossed cheque for a customer within the meaning of this section notwithstanding that he credits his customer’s account with the amount of the cheque before receiving payment thereof.


Explanation II — It shall be the duty of the banker who receives payment based on an electronic image of a truncated cheque held with him, to verify the prima facie genuineness of the cheque to be. truncated and any fraud, forgery or tampering apparent on the face of the instrument that can be verified with due diligence and ordinary care.

 

[Explanation II inserted vide Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 ]

 

 

 

 

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