Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 05.08.2025 CORAM : THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE D.BHARATHA CHAKRAVARTHY Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 and Crl.M.P.No.3520 of 2025 1. Vellivel 2. Rasathi 3. Poonkodi 4. Mahalingam 5. Pazhanyammal .. Petitioners Versus 1. The State Represented by, The Inspector of Police, A.W.P.S, Cuddalore. 2. Suba .. Respondents Prayer : Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C.,/Section 528 of BNSS, 2023 to call for the records in C.C.No.508 of 2024 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Additional Mahila Court, Cuddalore and quash the same. 1/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 For Petitioner : Mr.R.Shunmugasundaram, Senior Counsel, for Ms.A.G.Shakeenaa, and Mr.D.Senthur Kugan For Respondent : Dr.C.E.Pratap, Government Advocate (Crl. Side), for R1 : Mr.A.Arasu Ganeshan, for R2 ORDER This Criminal Original Petition is filed to quash the Final Report and proceedings in C.C.No.508 of 2024 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Additional Mahila Court, Cuddalore. 2. When the matter is taken up for hearing, a joint memorandum of compromise, signed by the parties, is filed before this Court. The de facto complainant is the wife and the first accused is the husband and the others are the in-laws and other relatives. Since the couple have joined together and are living peacefully, by virtue of the dictum of the Hon'ble Supreme 2/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 Court of India in B.S.Joshi and Ors. Vs. State of Haryana and Anr. 1, the Final Report can be quashed as the offences relate to Sections 498A, 294B and 506(1) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 2002. 3. Accordingly, this Criminal Original Petition stands allowed. The case in C.C.No.508 of 2024 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Additional Mahila Court, Cuddalore shall stand quashed. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petition is closed. 05.08.2025 Neutral Citation : no grs To 1. The Judicial Magistrate, Additional Mahila Court, Cuddalore. 1 AIR 2003 SC 1386 3/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 2. The Inspector of Police, A.W.P.S, Cuddalore. 3. The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras. 4/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 D.BHARATHA CHAKRAVARTHY, J. grs Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 and Crl.M.P.No.3520 of 2025 5/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.5490 of 2025 05.08.2025 6/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis