According to reports, the actress was asked to pay Rs 4.64 lakh, including interest of Rs 1.64 lakh, to the complainant.
Poonam Sethi had reportedly filed the case against Koena Mitra in the year 2013 after her cheque bounced for 'want for funds'. Whereas, Koena Mitra has denied all the allegations and is planning to challenge the verdict against her.
As per the details, Koena Mitra borrowed Rs 22 lakh from Poonam Sethi over a period of time. Later, she gave Sethi a cheque of Rs 3 lakh as repayment which got bounced.
Koena Mitra reportedly defended herself on two grounds. She said that Poonam Sethi didn't have financial capacity to give her the big amount of Rs 22 lakh. In her second argument, Koena Mitra claimed that Poonam Sethi stole her cheques. Both her arguments were not accepted by the magistrate.
“Furthermore, in the present matter, said cheque is not dishonoured on the count of ‘payment stopped by drawer’. It is dishonoured on the count of ‘funds insufficient’. If at all, it is presumed that complainant took the cheques from the accused’s house, which was blank and misused them, then the option of stopping the payment was very well available with the accused. But she did not do anything like this. Thus, the conduct of accused prior and subsequent to the dishonoured of said cheque constrained me to hold that this defence is afterthought and taken only to evade the liability,” the court observed.
“The case is totally false and I have been framed in the matter. During the final argument, my lawyer could not be present in the court and hence my side was not heard and the order was passed without my hearing. We will be challenging the judgement in the higher court and my lawyers are in the process of appealing,” Mitra told Mumbai Mirror.
On the career front, Mitra had acted in films like “Musafir” (2004), “Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena” (2005) and “Apna Sapna Money Money” (2006).
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