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The Supreme Court slammed banks for filing cheque-bounce cases in faraway cities, calling it harassment of small borrowers and a misuse of legal provisions.

The court transferred a Kotak Mahindra Bank case from Chandigarh to Andhra Pradesh, noting all transactions happened in Adoni.

The bench said it will examine the larger issue and “settle the law” amid rising complaints of banks filing cases at inconvenient locations.

Expressing displeasure over the "misuse of law" and "harassment" meted out to small-time borrowers by financial institutions and banks by lodging cheque bounce cases at distant locations in the country, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it would examine the issue and settle the law.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi expresse

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