SHAMMI SONKAR @ SHAMMI KUMAR SONKAR AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. DEPTT. HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER
A482/8492/2025 · 2025-09-26
Shree Prakash Singh
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 8492 of 2025 Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J.
1. Sri Neel Kisan, advocate, has put in appearance by way of filing vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party no. 2 and the same is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Neel Kisan, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 3. The instant application has been filed primarily to quash the entire criminal proceedings in Case No. 76273/2019 (State vs. Shammi Sonkar And Another)—arising out of Case Crime No. 66 of 2019, under Sections-323, 325,504,506 I.P.C., P.S. Wazirganj, District Lucknow, on the basis of a compromise between the parties. This prayer specifically seeks to set aside the impugned charge sheet dated 03.05.2019 and the cognizance order dated 17.09.2019, along with all consequential orders, in respect of the petitioner, and it is further prayed that the Court may stay the further proceedings in the said Case No. 76273/2019, pending before the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate V, Lucknow, till the disposal of this petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the instant case. He next added that under some misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably compromised their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 15.09.2025, which has been annexed as annexure no. 4 to the instant application. He next added that now there is no grievance in between the parties with each other and the criminal proceedings against the applicants are the futile exercise as there is no fate of trial and that is amount to Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Rashi Gupta Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Shammi Sonkar @ Shammi Kumar Sonkar And Another .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Home Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s)
harassment of the applicants and thus, the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be quashed. 5.
On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite parties has supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that the parties have settled their dispute amicably through a compromise deed and there is no further grievance of the opposite parties against the present applicants and the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped. 6. Learned A.G.A. appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid. 7. 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. 8. Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that if any such compromise is filed before it, it shall issue notices to all the signatories to the compromise requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the compromise. 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. 9. 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 applicants to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings. For a period of three months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of the impugned Case No. 76273/2019 (State versus Shammi Sonkar And Another), shall remain stayed so far as applicants are concerned. 11. The trial Court is directed to examine the fact that whether all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed, the party in the compromise and in this respect, it shall also sent a report along with the verification order. 12. Office is directed to return the original compromise deed to the learned counsel for the applicants, if any, after taking the photocopy of the same. September 26, 2025 Haseen U. A482 No. 8492 of 2025 2 (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- HASEENUDDIN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench