RAGHUVENDRA MANI TRIPATHI v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. SECY. HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER
A482/4003/2025 · 2025-07-03
Om Prakash Shukla
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:37590 Court No. - 30 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 4003 of 2025 Applicant :- Raghuvendra Mani Tripathi Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ranjana Agnihotri,Harshita Awasthi,Ratnesh Kant Agnihotri Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Rahul Srivastava Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State, Shri Rahul Srivastava, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 and perused the record.
2. By means of the instant application, the applicant has prayed for quashing of entire proceedings of criminal case arising out of charge sheet and cognizance order in trial pending before Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (Custom), Lucknow arising out of case crime no.278 of 2011 under sections 406, 420, 504, 506 IPC, police station Gazipur, District Lucknow.
3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that due to certain misunderstanding the instant F.I.R. was lodged against the applicants. He added that later on, the parties sat together and have amicably settled their disputes, which has been reduced in writing on 14.06.2015 which is annexed as Annexure No.4 to the application. Thereafter, in compliance of order dated 12.05.2025, passed by this Court, the parties have appeared before Court below on 19.05.2025 on which date the compromise deed was verified, copy of verification order is annexed as SA-2 to the supplementary affidavit. He submits that now there is no dispute in between the parties and they have settled their dispute. He submits that further criminal proceedings in the instant matter would amount to harassment and, thus, the instant criminal proceedings arising out of Case Crime No.278 of 2011 may be quashed.
4. Learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 has also supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that parties have amicably settled their dispute and the opposite party no.2 has no grievance, hence, criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped. Learned counsel for the State has no objection to the submissions aforesaid.
5. Considering the aforesaid submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, I find that compromise has been entered into between the parties on 14.06.2015 and said compromise has been verified on 19.05.2025 and, now, as per the statement of
learned counsel for the parties, they do not want to press the aforementioned criminal proceedings relating to Case Crime No.278 of 2011.
6. In view of the above, as the applicants and opposite parties have entered into compromise on 14.06.2015 and no grievance remains to be agitated and, as such, further criminal proceedings in the aforementioned criminal case are liable to be set aside in view of the Judgments of the Apex Court rendered in B.S. Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana and another (2003) 4 SCC 675; Nikhil Merchant Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation (2008) 9 SCC 677; Manoj Sharma Vs. State and others, (2008) 16 SCC 1; Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303; and Narindra Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab (2014) 6 SCC 466.
7. Accordingly, entire proceeding of criminal case arising out of charge sheet and cognizance order in trial pending before Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (Custom), Lucknow arising out of case crime no.278 of 2011 under sections 406, 420, 504, 506 IPC, police station Gazipur, District Lucknow are hereby quashed.
8. The application is allowed accordingly. . (Om Prakash Shukla, J.)
Order Date :- 3.7.2025 Arnima Digitally signed by :- ARNIMA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench