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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 22310 of 2025 Court No. - 46 HON'BLE RAJIV GUPTA, J.
HON'BLE RAJIV LOCHAN SHUKLA, J.
1. Shri Arvind Kumar Verma, Advocate has filed his vakalatnama as well as short counter affidavit on behalf of respondent nos.3 and 4, today, in Court, which is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned AGA for the State, Shri Arvind Kumar Verma, learned counsel for respondent nos. 3 and 4 and perused the records. 3. The instant writ petition seeks quashing of FIR dated 8.9.2025, giving rise to Case Crime No.418 of 2025, under Sections 115(2),110,352,351(2) BNS 2023, Police Station- Bilari, District- Moradabad. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners are next door neighbours of the respondent nos. 3 and 4 and on account of some misunderstanding, the impugned FIR was lodged, however subsequently, with the intervention of respected members of both the families and society, the parties have amicably and genuinely settled all their disputes and differences and now they do not have any grievance against each other. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioners has next drawn the attention of this Court to a compromise deed dated 20.9.2025, drawn between the parties, a copy of which has been annexed as Annexure-2 to this writ petition. 6. Learned counsel for the petitioners has next submitted that in view of the said compromise and in order to maintain harmonious and cordial relations between the parties, the impugned FIR lodged against the petitioners be quashed. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Rakesh Kumar Verma Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Viru And 3 Others .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s)
7. Learned counsel for respondent nos. 3 and 4 has also appeared and has filed a short counter affidavit, wherein in paragraph 5 of the said affidavit, the factum of arriving at a compromise has been acknowledged, further in para 6 of the said affidavit, it has been stated that in view of the compromise made between the parties, the respondent nos. 3 and 4 has no objection, if the impugned FIR is quashed. 8. Learned AGA could not dispute the aforesaid facts. 9. This Court is not unmindful of the judgement of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Narindra Singh and others Vs.
State of Punjab, ( 2014) 6 SCC 466, Parbatbhai Aahir @ Parbatbhai Vs. State of Gujarat (2017) 9 SCC, 641, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303 and State of M.P. Vs. Laxmi Narayanan (2019) 5 SCC 688, wherein Hon'ble Apex Court has categorically held that compromise can be made between the parties even in respect of certain cognizable and non- compoundable offences. Reference may also be made to the decision given by this Court in Shaifullah and others Vs. State of U.P. and another [2013 (83) ACC 278], in which, law expounded by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the aforesaid cases has been explained in detail. 10. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, as noted herein above, and also the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, this Court is of the considered opinion that no useful purpose would be served by prolonging the proceedings of the above mentioned case. 11. Accordingly, the impugned FIR dated 8.9.2025, giving rise to Case Crime No.418 of 2025, under Sections 115(2),110,352,351(2) BNS 2023, Police Station- Bilari, District- Moradabad., are hereby quashed. 12. This writ petition is, accordingly, allowed. September 26, 2025 R CRLP No. 22310 of 2025 2 (Rajiv Lochan Shukla,J.) (Rajiv Gupta,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAM ASARE MORYA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad