MOHIT ALIAS MOHIT INSAN AND ORS v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND
WPCRL/211/2025 · 2025-03-12
Pankaj Purohit
body2025
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SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
WPCRL No.211 of 2025 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J.
Mr. Jasmeet Sahota, learned counsel for the petitioners.
2. Mr. Bhaskar Ch. Joshi, learned AGA with Mr. Vipul Painuly, learned B.H. for the State.
3. Mr. Basant Goraya, learned counsel for respondent nos.4 to 7.
4. Compounding application (IA/1/2025) has been moved on behalf of the parties which has been filed seeking to compound the entire proceedings of FIR No.0004 of 2025 dated 02.01.2025 registered u/s 115(2), 351(2) and 352 of BNS, 2023 registered at P.S. Bazpur, District, U.S. Nagar, lodged by respondent no.4.
5. The ground for seeking compounding of offences is that parties have reached to the terms of compromise wherefor a settlement has also reached between them. It is thus, prayed that the present proceedings between the parties may be quashed in terms of the compromise arrived at between the parties.
6. Learned State Counsel raised a formal objection to the compounding application.
7. Applicant nos.1 to 4 as well as respondent no.4 to 7 are present in the Court being duly identified by their respective counsel(s). Their separate affidavits have also been annexed with the compounding application. Moreover, the Court also had an interaction with respondent no.4-Victim who also admitted the fact that he has entered into a compromise with the petitioners.
8. Since the offences u/s 115(2), 351(2) and 352 of
BNS, 2023 are compoundable ones as per the Table given in Section 359 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, accordingly, compounding application (IA/1/2025) is hereby allowed. The compromise arrived at between the parties is accepted. With the result, the entire proceedings of FIR No.0004 of 2025 dated 02.01.2025 registered u/s 115(2), 351(2) and 352 of BNS, 2023 registered at P.S. Bazpur, District, U.S. Nagar, lodged by respondent no.4, are hereby quashed qua all the petitioners. 9
Present writ petition, along with all other pending applications, stands disposed of accordingly.
(Pankaj Purohit, J.)
12.03.2025 R.Dang