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2025 DAILYLAW 114431 (ALL)

RUBY SINGH AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND 3 OTHERS

CRLP/263/2025 · 2025-04-03

Brij Raj Singh, Vivek Chaudhary

Public Interest Litigationbody2025

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:18602-DB Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 263 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ruby Singh And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Prabhakar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.,Kamlesh Singh,Manjusha Kapil Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary, J. Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. for the State-opposite parties no.1 to 3 and Ms. Manjusha Kapil, learned counsel for opposite party no.4. 2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioners have sought quashing of the First Information Report No.0819 of 2024, under Sections 406, 420, 504 and 506 IPC, Police Station PGI, District Lucknow. Petitioners also pray for quashing of the entire criminal proceedings in the aforesaid case crime number. 3. On 20.03.2025, parties were directed to appear before the Senior Registrar for verification of compromise. 4. The report of the Senior Registrar of this Court dated 26.03.2025 is on record, according to which, he has verified the compromise on 26.03.2025. The original compromise is on record which has been annexed as Annexure-SA-1 to the Supplementary Affidavit filed on 20.03.2025. 5. According to the terms of the compromise, parties have decided to withdraw all the cases filed by them against each other including FIR No.0819 of 2024, under Sections 406, 420, 504 and 506 IPC, Police Station PGI, District Lucknow. 6. Learned counsel for the parties state that money under the said compromise is already paid/settled between the parties. 7. Intent is clear, the informant, who is a signatory to the compromise, does not want to press the FIR, therefore, no purpose would be served in allowing the proceedings even if charge sheet has been filed before the court below to go on considering the nature of the dispute. 8. Accordingly, the impugned FIR, which is the basis to serve consequential proceedings of investigation and thereafter filing of charge sheet, if any, is hereby quashed. Consequently, all proceedings taken consequent to the lodging of the FIR including charge sheet, if any, filed before the court below stand quashed. 9. The writ petition is, accordingly, allowed. 10. The Senior Registrar of this Court shall communicate this order to the court concerned for correcting its record, accordingly. 11. Learned AGA shall communicate this order to the investigating officer. . (Brij Raj Singh, J.) (Vivek Chaudhary, J.) Order Date :- 3.4.2025 Rao/- Digitally signed by :- CHEBROLU SRINIVASA RAO High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench