HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 4242 of 2025 Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. Supplementary affidavit, filed on behalf of the applicants, is taken on record. 2. The instant application U/s 482 CrPC has been filed seeking quashing of the charge-sheet dated 24.09.2023 filed in Case Crime No.0548/2023, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504 and 506 IPC lodged at Police Station Kotwali City, District Pratapgarh, to quash the entire proceedings of Case No.921/2024 (State Vs. Ritesh Chawla alias Ritesh Kumar Chawla and others), pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pratapgarh and to quash the cognizance order dated 11.01.2024 passed in the aforesaid case on the ground that the parties have arrived at a compromise/settlement. 3. Learned counsels for the parties submit that the parties have settled their dispute amicably outside the Court and they have arrived at a compromise. The compromise entered into between the parties has been placed on record as Annexure-4 to the application. The parties have confirmed the terms of the compromise. The compromise has been verified between the parties by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pratapgarh vide order dated 16.06.2025 in compliance of the order dated 23.05.2025 passed by this Court in the present application. 4. I have considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Rahul Pal Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Alok Ranjan Ritesh Chawla Alias Ritesh Kumar Chawla .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Pratapgardh And Another .....Opposite Party(s) 5. Considering the ratio laid down by the Supreme Court in the cases of 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 Station of Punjab: (2010) 15 SCC 118 and Narinder Singh and others versus State of Punjab and another: (2014) 6 SCC 466, it would be appropriate in the facts and circumstances of the case to quash the criminal proceedings as continuance of the proceedings in pursuance of the criminal proceedings would be an exercise in futility. 6. 6. In view of the fact that the parties have settled their dispute outside the Court by way of compromise arrived at between the parties and law laid down by the Supreme Court of India, the instant application is allowed and the entire proceedings of Case No.921/2024 (State Vs. Ritesh Chawla alias Ritesh Kumar Chawla and others), pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pratapgarh, arising out of Case Crime No.0548/2023, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504 and 506 IPC lodged at Police Station Kotwali City, District Pratapgarh, including the charge-sheet dated 24.09.2023 and the cognizance order dated 11.01.2024, are hereby quashed. 7. The compromise deed shall be made part of this order. 8. Consign to record. September 3, 2025 MVS/- A482 No. 4242 of 2025 2 (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- MANOJ VIKRAM SINGH CHAUHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench