Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED :28.04.2025 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 Deventhiran ... Petitioner Vs. 1. The State Rep by The Inspector of Police, Thirukalukundram Police Station, Chengalpattu District. Crime No.30 of 2018. 2. Ravi ... Respondents PRAYER: Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, to call for the records and to quash the First Information Report in Crime No.30 of 2018 pending on the file of the first respondent as against the petitioner herein. For Petitioner : Mr.D.Padmanabhan For Respondents For R1 : Mr.A.Gopinath Government Advocate (Crl.Side) O R D E R This Criminal Original Petition has been filed to quash the FIR in Crime No.30 of 2018 on the file of the first respondent, registered https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 for the offences under Sections 147, 149, 324 of IPC & Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act. 2. Pending this petition, the parties have decided to bury their hatchet and compromise the dispute amicably among themselves. 3. A Joint Compromise has been filed before this Court, which has been signed by the petitioner and the defacto complainant and also by their respective counsel. All the parties are present and identified by their respective counsel and the Police. In order to identify the respective parties, they have also produced the copies of the Aadhaar Card and it is made part of the record. This Court also enquired both the parties and was satisfied that the parties have come to an amicable settlement between themselves. 4. Under such circumstances, no useful purpose will be served in keeping the First Information Report pending, even though, the offences involved are not compoundable in nature. In the light of the guidelines given by the Hon'ble Supreme Court reported in 2017 9 SCC 641-(Parbathbhai Aahir @ Parbathbhai Vs. State of Gujrath), this https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under Section 528 of BNSS, 2023, quashes the FIR in Crime No.30 of 2018 pending investigation on the file of the first respondent. 5. In view of the above, the FIR in Crime No.30 of 2018 on the file of the first respondent, is hereby quashed. The terms of Joint Compromise shall form part and parcel of this Order. The petitioner shall pay a sum of Rs.5,000/-, (Rupees Five Thousand only) as costs, to the Chief Justice Relief Fund, Madras High Court, Tamil Nadu, forthwith and file a photocopy of the receipt along with a memo reporting compliance in the Registry. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Original Petition stands allowed. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petition is closed. 28.04.2025 Index : Yes/No Neutral citation : Yes/No Speaking/non-speaking order rts https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN, J. rts To 1. The Inspector of Police, Thirukalukundram Police Station, Chengalpattu District. 2. The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Chennai. Crl.O.P.No.10977 of 2025 28.04.2025 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis