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. 301 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Heard Mr. K.K. Verma, learned counsel for the applicant, Mr. Deepak Bisht, learned D.A.G. for the State and Ms. Harshi Gupta, learned counsel for respondent no. 2. 2. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 1307 of 2024, State Vs. Vinod Balmiki, under Sections 323, 498-A and 504 IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Haldwani, District Nainital, 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 Section 323, 498-A and 504 IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 4. 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. 5. It is jointly submitted by the parties that they have settled their scores. 6. Learned State Counsel raised a preliminary objection to the effect that the offences sought to be compounded are non- compoundable. 7. However, the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of B.S. Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana reported in (2003) 4 S.C.C., Page 675, has permitted compounding of non- compoundable offences with the permission of Court, especially in matrimonial disputes. 8. Following the aforesaid ratio, present compounding application (IA/1/2025) is allowed. The offences between the parties are permitted to be compounded. As a result, entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 1307 of 2024, State Vs. Vinod Balmiki, under Sections 323, 498-A and 504 IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Haldwani, District Nainital, are hereby quashed qua the applicant. FIR and charge-sheet filed pursuant thereto stand quashed. 9. C-528 application stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms. (Alok Mahra J.) 10.03.2025 Ujjwal