HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 472 of 2017 Court No. - 27 HON'BLE RAJEEV SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants as well as learned A.G.A. for the State and learned counsel appearing for respondent no. 2. 2. The present application has been filed with a prayer to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 2136 of 2014 (Old No. 1834 of 2011) arising out of Case Crime No. 109 of 2011, under Sections 352, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3(1)(x) of SC/ST Act, P.S. Raje Sultanpur, District Ambedkar Nagar. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants and learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 jointly submit that in pursuance of the earlier order dated 25.01.2017, the matter was sent before the court below for verification of the compromise deed. 4. It is evident from the record that the factum of the compromise has been verified by the court below vide his report dated 23.02.2017. The compromise deed is appended as Annexure 4 to the application, which goes to show that respondent no. 2 does not want to prosecute the applicants. 5. Learned A.G.A. fairly concedes that compromise has been effected between the parties and the same has duly been verified by the court below. 6. Hon'ble Apex Court, in catena of decisions, viz., Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab, 2012 AIR SCW 5333, B.S. Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana, (2003) 3 SCC 675 and Narinder Singh Vs. State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466, has held that inherent power can be used to do real and substantial justice. Hence, inherent power can be exercised to speed up the process of ending the criminal proceedings where the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Santosh Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Govt. Advocate, Ajay Pratap Ranjeet Singh And Ors. .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And Anr. .....Opposite Party(s) settlement is arrived at between the parties. 7. In view of the aforesaid fact that parties do not want to pursue the case any further and the matter has been mutually settled between the parties by way of the compromise, no useful purpose would be served in proceeding with the matter any further. 8. For the discussions made above, the present application is allowed. 9. Entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 2136 of 2014 (Old No. 1834 of 2011) arising out of Case Crime No. 109 of 2011, under Sections 352, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3(1)(x) of SC/ST Act, P.S. Raje Sultanpur, District Ambedkar Nagar are hereby quashed. 10. Office is directed to send a copy of this order to the court concerned, forthwith. September 4, 2025 VKS A482 No. 472 of 2017 2 (Rajeev Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench