HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 8171 of 2025 Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J. 1. Sri Pankaj Kumar Singh, Advocate has put in appearance by filing Vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party no.2 and the same is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State, Sri Pankaj Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 and perused the material placed on record. 3. By means of the instant application, the applicants have prayed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No-99928/2021 arising out of Crime No.-0223/2021 U/s 406, 420, 409 IPC P.S. Hazratganj, District Lucknow pending in the court of C.J.M. Lucknow and allow the instant petition in terms of compromise in the interest of justice, to quash the chargesheet no. 01 of 2021 dated 19.04.2022. 4. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that due to certain misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. was lodged against the applicants. He added that later on, the parties sat together and have amicably settled their disputes, which has been reduced in writing on 12.02.2025. Thereafter, the applicants filed an Application U/S 482 No. 2220 of 2025 wherein this Court vide order dated 10.03.2025 has directed the trial court to verify the said compromise deed and in compliance thereof, the compromise deed was verified on 14.08.2025. He submits that now there is no dispute in between the parties and they have settled their dispute. He submits that further criminal proceedings in the instant matter would amount to harassment and, thus, the instant criminal proceedings against the applicants may be quashed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Pankaj Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Pankaj Kumar Singh Avaneesh Kumar Tiwari And 5 Others .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) 5. Learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 has also supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that parties have amicably settled their dispute and the opposite party no.2 has no grievance, hence, criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped. 6. Learned counsel for the State has no objection to the submissions aforesaid. 7. Considering the aforesaid submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, I find that compromise has been entered into between the parties on 12.02.2025 and said compromise has been verified on 14.08.2025 and, now, as per the statement of learned counsel for the parties, they do not want to press the aforementioned criminal proceedings against the applicants. 8. In view of the above, as the applicants and opposite parties have entered into compromise on 12.02.2025 and no grievance remains to be agitated and, as such, further criminal proceedings in the aforementioned criminal case are liable to be set aside in view of the Judgments of the Apex Court rendered in B.S. Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana and another (2003) 4 SCC 675; Nikhil Merchant Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation (2008) 9 SCC 677; Manoj Sharma Vs. State and others, (2008) 16 SCC 1; Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303; and Narindra Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab (2014) 6 SCC 466. 9. Accordingly, entire criminal proceedings against the applicants in Criminal Case No-99928/2021 arising out of Crime No.-0223/2021 U/s 406, 420, 409 IPC P.S. Hazratganj, District Lucknow, chargesheet no. 01 of 2021 dated 19.04.2022, are hereby quashed. 10. The compromise shall be part of this order. 11. The application is allowed accordingly. 12. Consigned to the records. September 23, 2025 Mayank A482 No. 8171 of 2025 2 (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- MAYANK PRATAP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench