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2025 DAILYLAW 3287 (UTT)

PRAVEEN KUMAR YADAV v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND THROUGH PRINCIPAL SECRETARY (HOME) GOVERNMENT OF U.K. DEHRADUN

C482/320/2023 · 2025-06-18

Pankaj Purohit

Criminal Appealbody2025

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2025:UHC:5082 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS C482/320/2023 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Rajat Mittal, learned counsel for the applicants. 2. Mr. S.C. Dumka, learned A.G.A. along with Ms. Shweta Badola Dobhal, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. Despite due opportunity, none appear for respondent no.2. 4. It is noted that the counsel for respondent no. 2 was also absent on 17.06.2025. 5. Present petition under Secti65ron 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed to quash the ex-parte order dated 30.05.2018 passed by learned 4th Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun in Case No. 166 of 2018 as well as the order dated 07.01.2023 passed by learned 6th Additional Sessions Judge Dehradun in Criminal Appeal No. 03 of 2019. 6. Learned counsel for the applicants would submit that the matter pertains to matrimonial discord between the parties, as applicant no.1 is the husband and applicant no.2 is the father-in-law of respondent no.2. 7. Learned counsel for the applicants would submit that the parties have amicably resolved their dispute and now respondent no.2 has no objection to the quashing of the proceedings as she does not wish to prosecute the applicants any further. Accordingly, Misc. Compromise Application No. 2 of 2025 has been filed 2025:UHC:5082 accompanied by an affidavit duly sworn by the concerned parties indicating that a mutual settlement has been reached between them. A certified copy of the mutual settlement agreement is also annexed to this application for the kind perusal of this Court. 8. The learned State Counsel does not dispute the submission regarding the settlement. 9. Considering the mutual settlement, the court finds no purpose in continuing with the proceedings. 10. In view of the above, the application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is disposed of in light of the amicable settlement between the parties. Accordingly, ex-parte order dated 30.05.2018 passed by learned 4th Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun in Case No. 166 of 2018 as well as the order dated 07.01.2023 passed by learned 6th Additional Sessions Judge Dehradun in Criminal Appeal No. 03 of 2019 are hereby quashed. 11. All pending applications, if any, stand disposed of accordingly. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 18.06.2025 Mamta 2025:UHC:5082