APHC010172282025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] FRIDAY ,THE FOURTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3694/2025 Between: Valuroutu Ashok Kumar ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. MANGENA SREE RAMA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. N ANULA 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 I.A.Nos.1 and 2 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION NO.3694 of 2025 COMMON ORDER: The instant petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short BNSS) has been filed by the petitioner/accused, seeking to quash entire proceedings in PRC.No.29 of 2025 on the file of II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajamahendravam, East Godavari district. 2. I.A.No.1 of 2025 is filed by the 2nd respondent/de-facto complainant, to accord permission to the 2nd petitioner to compound in the PRC.No.29 of 2025. 3. I.A.No.2 of 2025 is filed by the 2nd respondent/de-facto complainant, seeking to compound the criminal case in PRC.No.29 of 2025, by recording compromise. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing respondent No.1/State as well as learned counsel representing for the unofficial respondent No.2 are present. 5. Today, when the matter is taken up, petitioner and the respondent No.2 are present before this Court. Learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for respondent No.2 have identified the parties in the open Court. 3 6. This Court has questioned the respondent No.2 with regard to compromise, and she categorically stated to that extent that she has voluntarily entered into compromise with the petitioner herein. This Court is satisfied with the identification of the parties and voluntariness in arriving at the compromise. 7. Since the parties entered into settlement and compromise, the Criminal Petition is allowed and therefore, the proceedings in P.R.C.No.29 of 2025 on the file of II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajamahendravam, East Godavari district, against the petitioner herein is hereby quashed. 8. Accordingly, I.A.Nos.1 and 2 of 2025 and Criminal Petition No.3694 of 2025 are allowed. As a sequel, Interlocutory Applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N BMS