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MOHD. SALMAN @ SALMAN AND OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME, CIVIL SECTT. LKO. AND ANOTHER

A482/2223/2024 · 2025-09-26

Shree Prakash Singh

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 2223 of 2024 Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J. 1. Heard Sri Suhail Kashif, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Rajesh Kumar, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The instant application has been filed with the prayer to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 241 of 2024 arising out of Case Crime No. 329 of 2023 Under Section 498-A, 323,354,504 I.P.C and Section 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act Police Station: Dewa, District: Barabanki and to stay the operation and implementation of Summoning Order dated 19.01.2024. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the instant case. He next added that under some misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably settled their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 04.08.2025, which has been annexed as annexure no. SA-1 to the supplementary affidavit. He next added that now there is no grievance in between the parties with each other and the criminal proceedings against the applicants are the futile exercise as there is no fate of trial and that is amount to harassment of the applicants and thus, the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be quashed. 4. On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite parties has supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that the parties have settled their dispute amicably through a compromise Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Suhail Kashif Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Rajesh Kumar Mohd. Salman @ Salman And Others .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home, Civil Sectt. Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) deed and there is no further grievance of the opposite parties against the present applicants and the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped. 5. Learned A.G.A. appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid. 6. Now whether the parties have, in fact, compromised the matter or not, can best be ascertained by the trial court as such compromise has to be duly verified in presence of the parties concerned before the Court. 7. Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that if any such compromise is filed before it, it shall issue notices to all the signatories to the compromise requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the compromise. If the aforesaid compromise is verified, a report to that effect shall be prepared by the court and the compromise will be made part of the record. 8. The court in that scenario will allow the parties to obtain certified copy of the report as well as compromise and it will be open to the applicants to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings. 9. For a period of three months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of Case No. 241 of 2024 arising out of Case Crime No. 329 of 2023 Under Section 498-A, 323,354,504 I.P.C and Section 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act Police Station: Dewa, District: Barabanki, shall remain stayed so far as applicants are concerned. 10. The trial Court is directed to examine the fact that whether all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed, the party in the compromise and in this respect, it shall also sent a report along with the verification order. 11. Office is directed to return the original compromise deed to the learned counsel for the applicants, if any, after taking the photocopy of the same. September 26, 2025 Mayank A482 No. 2223 of 2024 2 (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- MAYANK PRATAP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench