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2025 DAILYLAW 137164 (ALL)

KRISHNA LAL v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. DEPTT. OF HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER

A482/3732/2025 · 2025-05-08

Om Prakash Shukla

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:27156 Court No. - 30 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 3732 of 2025 Applicant :- Krishna Lal Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ram Karan Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and Shri Amit Kumar Verma, Advocate, who has filed his vakalatnama on behalf of the respondent No.2 today in the Court, which is taken on record. 2. The instant application seeks quashing of the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.1111/2022, arising out of Case Crime No.0193/2021, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station Patranga, District Faizabad on the basis of compromise/settlement dated 27.01.2025 held between the parties. 3. Learned counsel for the parties submit that the applicant and respondent no.2 have amicably settled their dispute outside the court vide compromise dated 27.01.2025, copy of which is on record as Annexure-4 to the application. 4. Further it has been submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that in compliance of order passed by this Court dated 11.02.2025 in Application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. No.1245 of 2025, the compromise has been verified by the learned trial court. 5. Learned counsel for respondent no.2 concedes the argument made by learned counsel for the applicant. 6. Learned counsel for the parties submits that in view of the judgments of Hon'ble Apex Court in B. S. Joshi and others versus State of Haryana and another :(2003) 4 SCC 675, Nikhil Merchant versus C.B.I. and another : (2008) 9 SCC 677, Manoj Sharma versus State and others : (2008) 16 SCC 1, Gian Singh versus State of Punjab: (2010) 15 SCC 118 and Narinder Singh and others versus State of Punjab and another: (2014) 6 SCC 466, the proceedings pending before learned trial court are liable to be quashed. 7. 7. In view of the fact that the parties have settled their dispute outside the Court by way of compromise and from perusal of the record it appears that the compromise has been verified by the learned trial court and the verification report dated 04.04.2025 is on record as well as law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the cases (supra), the present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is allowed and the criminal proceedings (supra) are hereby quashed. Order Date :- 8.5.2025 Mohd. Sharif Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD SHARIF High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench