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2025 DAILYLAW 2420 (UTT)

GUNJIT PAL SINGH ALIAS MOHIT v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND

C528/117/2025 · 2025-02-19

Alok Mahra

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No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS ` C-528 No. 117 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Heard Mr. Nandan Arya, learned counsel for the applicant, Mr. Deepak Bisht, learned Deputy Advocate General for the State and Mr. Pramod Kumar, learned counsel for respondent no. 2. 2. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/quash the charge- sheet dated 07.04.2023 as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 02.06.2023 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 2192 of 2023, State of Uttarakhand Vs. Sukhveer Singh Bedi and Gunjit Pal Singh, under Sections 420, 504, 506 r/w 34 IPC, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate,1st Additional Civil Judge (Sr. Div.), Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar on the basis of compromise between the parties. 3. Compounding application (IA/1/2025) is also filed in the matter wherein it is prayed to compound the offence between the parties under Sections 420, 504, 506 r/w 34 IPC. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the parties have amicably settled their dispute and have entered into a compromise. 5. Parties are present before this Court and are duly identified by their respective counsel. Parties have also filed their respective affidavits stating the facts of compromise between them. 6. Hon’ble Supreme Court, in a catena of its judgments, has observed that in cases where because of the compromise arrived at between the parties, possibility of conviction is remote and bleak, the High Court may quash the criminal proceedings as continuation of the same would cause great prejudice and injustice to the accused. 7. Following the aforesaid ratio, present compounding application (IA/1/2024) is allowed. The offences between the parties are permitted to be compounded. As a result, entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 2192 of 2023, State of Uttarakhand Vs. Sukhveer Singh Bedi and Gunjit Pal Singh, under Sections 420, 504, 506 r/w 34 IPC, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate,1st Additional Civil Judge (Sr. Div.), Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar, are hereby quashed qua the applicant. FIR and charge-sheet filed pursuant thereto stand quashed. 8. C-528 application stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms. (Alok Mahra J.) 19.02.2025 Ujjwal