Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:47206 Court No. - 14 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 7275 of 2024 Applicant :- Dr. Jitendra Verma And Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Yadava,Rakesh Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Ram Prakash Singh Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Ram Prakash Singh, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 and learned AGA for the State as well as perused the material placed on record. By means of instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the applicants have prayed for quashing of the chargesheet No. 1 of 2024, dated 10.03.2024 filed in Crl. Misc. Case No. 23522 of 2024, arising out of Case Crime No. 15 of 2024, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Khodarey, District Gonda and summoning order dated 01.07.2024 passed by CJM, Gonda as well as entire proceedings in pursuance thereof. Learned counsel for the applicants has submitted that the matter was referred to Mediation & Conciliation Centre of this Court vide order of this Court dated 21.08.2024, whereupon the parties appeared before the Mediation & Conciliation Centre of this Court and have settled their dispute and arrived at a settlement/agreement dated 17.01.2025 and now there is no dispute in between the parties. He submits that since the matter is settled, therefore, the criminal proceedings of Crl. Misc. Case No. 23522 of 2024, arising out of Case Crime No. 15 of 2024, may be quashed. Learned counsel appearing for opposite party no. 2 has also supported the version of learned counsel for the applicant and submits that parties have amicably settled their dispute and opposite party no. 2 has no grievance, hence, criminal proceedings against the applicant may be dropped. Learned counsel for the State has no objection to the submissions aforesaid. Considering the aforesaid submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, it transpires that the matter was referred to the Mediation & Conciliation Centre of this Court by this Court vide order dated 21.08.2024 and now the matter is settled and the Mediators' report dated 17th of January, 2025 is appended alongwith the settlement/agreement in between the parties with remark that the mediation completed and succeeded. From perusal of the settlement/agreement, it transpires that the parties are agreed that they will withdraw all their cases lodged against each other, as is averred in Paragraph-E of the settlement/agreement, hence the criminal proceeding is liable to be quashed. This Court has noticed that the parties have settled their dispute before the Mediation & Conciliation Centre of this Court. Resultantly, the entire proceedings of Crl. Misc. Case No. 23522 of 2024, arising out of Case Crime No. 15 of 2024, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Khodarey, District Gonda, are hereby quashed. Settlement/agreement dated 17.01.2025 shall be the part of this order. Consequences to be followed. The application is allowed accordingly. Order Date :- 12.8.2025 kkv/ Digitally signed by :- KRISHAN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench