HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 5998 of 2025 Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J. [Order on Crl. Misc. Application No. IA/6/2025 (impleadment)] The impleadment application filed toady on behalf of the applicant is taken on record. Heard. The reasons, explained in the affidavit, filed in support of the application for impleadment, are found to be sufficient. Consequently, impleadment application is allowed. Learned counsel for the applicant is permitted to make necessary incorporation in the array of the opposite parties during the course of the day. [Order on Application U/s 482 Cr.P.C.] Short counter affidavit alongwith Vakalatnama filed today by Sri Abhishek Kumar, Advocate, on behalf of the victim, opposite party no. 3, is taken on record. Supplementary affidavit filed today by learned counsel for the applicant is also taken on record. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Abhishek Kumar, learned counsel appearing for opposite parties nos. 2 and 3 and Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Satish Kumar, Amit Bhardwaj Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Puneet Gautam @ Khoob Lal .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home U.P. Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) learned AGA for the State as well as perused the record. The instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed with the prayer to quash the chargesheet dated 12.08.2023 in Sessions Trial No. 494 of 2024; State of U.P. Vs. Puneet Gautam @ Khoob Lal), arising out of Case Crime No. 206 of 2023, under Sections 363, 366 IPC, Police Station Mall, District Lucknow and summoning order dated 04.09.2023 passed by learned ACJM-IV, Lucknow, as well as entire proceedings in pursuance thereof. Learned counsel appearing for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the instant case. He next added that due to some misunderstanding, the instant FIR has been lodged against the applicant and thereafter, the parties have amicably compromised their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 28.07.2025, which has been annexed alongwith the supplementary affidavit dated 29.07.2025. He next added that now there is no grievance in between the parties with each other and the criminal proceedings against the applicant are the futile exercise as there is no fate of trial and that is amount to harassment of the applicant and thus, the criminal proceedings against the applicant may be quashed. On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite parties nos. 2 and 3 has supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicant and submits that the parties have settled their dispute amicably through a compromise deed and there is no further grievance of the opposite parties nos. 2 and 3 against the present applicant and the criminal proceedings against the applicant may be dropped. Learned AGA appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid. Now whether the parties have, in fact, compromised the matter or not, can best be ascertained by the court below as such compromise has to be duly verified in presence of the parties concerned before the Court. Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the A482 No. 5998 of 2025 2 court concerned that if any such compromise is filed before it, it shall issue notices to all the signatories to the compromise deed, requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the same. If the aforesaid compromise is verified, a report to that effect shall be prepared by the court and the compromise will be made part of the record. The court in that scenario will allow the parties to obtain certified copy of the report as well as compromise and it will be open to the applicant to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings. For a period of three months, the criminal proceedings of Sessions Trial No. 494 of 2024; State of U.P. Vs. Puneet Gautam @ Khoob Lal, arising out of Case Crime No. 206 of 2023, under Sections 363, 366 IPC, Police Station Mall, District Lucknow, shall remain stayed. The trial court is further directed for ensuring the fact that all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed are present before the trial court and a report with respect to this effect shall also be sent alongwith verification order. Office is directed to return back the original compromise deed dated 28.07.2025 to learned counsel for the applicant within a week. September 17, 2025 kkv/ A482 No. 5998 of 2025 3 (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- KRISHAN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench