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New Delhi: 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 expressed shock over a case in which one Golla Naraesh Kumar Yadav sought the transfer of a case lodged by Kotak Mahindra Bank before the chief judicial magistrate at Chandigarh to a court of metropolitan magistrate in Adoni of Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh.

Appearing for Yadav, the bench was informed by advocate P Mohith Rao that the bank has lodged the case at Chandigarh despite all transactions having taken place in Andhra Pradesh,

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