text: any lawyers,pls help on dishonour of cheque?? my son has given blank under signed cheque leaves to a few from whom he got the loan.now he lost his business and lost lot of money.now all the prople who has the cheques are filing a case in court against him with double or triple the amount than what he actually borrowed.( if he has got rs.25,000, they are depositing cheque with 50,000 and once it is dis-honoured then they file the case).i do not know how to tackle this situation legally?? pls help do the easiest thing which is to let them sue in court for the amounts owed.    the creditors are filling in the cheques with larger amounts so that they can sue for larger amounts, hoping that the cheques will be proof that the amount is owed.     the burden of proof is on the creditors. if someone goes to court he must prove that your son actually owes the money that he's being sued for. while a cheque can be viewed as a form of proof, the fact is that the number amount filled in the cheque isn't in your son's handwriting and therefore the cheque loses it's value as proof.     the original loan agreement will have to be provided to the court, and that will have the correct amounts on it.