Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:22735 Court No. - 12 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 7759 of 2024 Applicant :- Lalit And Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Mahesh Kumar Sharma Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Ashish Kumar Verma Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J. 1. Heard Sri Mahesh Kumar Sharma, learned counsel for the applicants as well as learned A.G.A. for the State of U.P. and Sri Ashish Tiwari, Advocate holding brief of Sri Ashish Kumar Verma, learned counsel appearing for opposite party no. 2. 2. By means of present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the applicant has prayed for quashing the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No. 2002 of 2024 - Ruby Vs. Lalit and Others, under Sections 323, 498-A IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station - Kotwali Rudauli, District - Faizabad (now Ayodhya) pending in the Court of the Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division)-II/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ayodhya as well as summoning order dated 07.07.2023, passed in the aforesaid case. It is further prayed, that since the parties have entered into settlement agreement before the Mediation Center of this Court, the entire proceedings of the aforesaid case as well as impugned order may be quashed in the light of settlement agreement dated 06.03.2025. The settlement agreement is available on record. 3. It has been contended by learned counsel for the applicant that this Court by means of order dated 25.09.2024, directed the parties to appear before Mediation and Conciliation Center of this Court on 15.10.2024, for participating in the mediation process. In compliance of aforesaid order, the parties appeared before the Mediation Center and after certain deliberations and discussion the parties arrived at settlement agreement and a report dated 06.03.2025, of the Mediation and Conciliation Center High Court Lucknow Bench, Lucknow to this effect has been submitted for perusal of this Court. Therefore, the impugned order passed in the aforesaid case as well as entire proceedings the said case may be quashed in view of the settlement agreement dated 06.03.2025. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant in support of his contention has placed reliance on the judgment of Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Manoj Sharma Vs. State, (2008) 16 SCC 1, Narinder Singh Vs. State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466 and Yogendra Yadav Vs. State of Jharkhand, (2014) 9 SCC 653 and has submitted that the applicants as well as opposite party no. 2 have settled the dispute and as such opposite party no. 2 does not want to litigate any further against the applicants. 5. Learned counsel appearing for opposite parties has no objection in case the impugned order passed in the aforesaid case as well as entire proceedings of the said case are quashed in the light of the settlement agreement dated 06.03.2025. 6. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 7. From the perusal of the record it is apparent that the parties have entered into settlement agreement and have settled their dispute amicably. 8. In this regard, the view taken by the Apex Court in the case of Manoj Sharma Vs. State (supra), Narinder Singh Vs. State of Punjab (supra) and Yogendra Yadav Vs. State of Jharkhand (supra), which have been relied upon by the learned counsel for the applicants finds force that this Court in exercise of its inherent power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. can set aside the impugned order, as the dispute has been amicably settled between the parties. 9. In the light of the fact that the settlement has arrived at between the applicants and the private opposite party and does not effect the public at large, and would only amount to private dispute between the parties, no useful purpose will be served will be served by allowing the applicants to be prosecuted any further, therefore the impugned summoning order dated 07.07.2023, passed passed in Complaint Case No. 2002 of 2024 as well as entire proceedings of the aforesaid case are hereby set aside/quashed, accordingly this applicant under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is allowed. Order Date :- 18.4.2025 A. Verma (Alok Mathur, J.) Digitally signed by :- ANURAG VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench