- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37516 CRL.P No. 12753 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 12753 OF 2025 BETWEEN: SRI. SUDHIN MANDAYAM ANANDAMPILLAI S/O SELVAN MANDAYAM ANANDAMPILLAI, AGED ABOUT 38 YEARS, RESIDING AT A-102, RAMKY UTSAV, SEENAPPA LAYOUT, NEW BEL ROAD, RMV 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU-560094. &PETITIONER (BY SRI. HEMANTH S., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. BASAVANAGUDI WOMEN POLICE STATION BENGALURU-560004. REP BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF BUILDING, BENGALURU - 01. 2. SMT. PRIYA IYENGAR K D/O C. KRISHNA KUMAR, AGED ABOUT 35 YEARS, RESIDING AT NO. 67, 3RD MAIN ROAD, NAGENDRA BLOCK, BANASHANKARI, 3RD STAGE, BENGALURU-560050. &RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. RAHUL RAI K., HCGP) Digitally signed by CHAITHRA A Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37516 CRL.P No. 12753 of 2025 THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S 482 OF CR.P.C. (FILED U/S 528 BNNS) PRAYING TO 1. QUASH THE FIR REGISTERED IN CR.NO.286/2022 (ANNEXURE -A) BY THE BASAVANAGUDI WOMEN P.S. FOR THE OFFENCE P/U/S 498A, 323, 504, 506 OF IPC AND SEC.3, 4 OF THE D.P ACT 1961 WHICH IS PRESENTLY PENDING BEFORE THE HON'BLE 32ND A.C.M.M BENGALURU. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM ORAL ORDER The petitioner/husband is seeking to quash the proceedings pending in C.C.No.5078/2023 for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 323, 504 and 506 of IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 2. Today, the petitioner/husband and the second respondent/wife are present before this Court. 3. On being queried, the second respondent acknowledges that the marriage between the - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37516 CRL.P No. 12753 of 2025 petitioner and herself has been dissolved in MC No.7004/2023, and appropriate provisions have been made in respect of the minor child. The second respondent has further expressed her willingness to co-operate with the quashing of the present proceedings in view of the amicable settlement reached between the parties. 4. In light of the memorandum of settlement recorded under Section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, read with Rules 24 and 25 of the Karnataka Civil Procedure (Mediation) Rules, 2005, and notwithstanding that the offences punishable under Section 498A of the IPC are non-compoundable, this Court finds it appropriate to quash the proceedings. The decision is informed by the fact that the matrimonial discord between the parties has been amicably resolved through the matrimonial proceedings, and the wife has consented to the - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37516 CRL.P No. 12753 of 2025 quashing of the criminal proceedings, thereby preventing any potential abuse of the process of law. 5. Accordingly, this Court passes the following order: ORDER (i) The petition is allowed. (ii) The proceedings pending in C.C.No.5078/2023 on the file of XXXII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru, for the offences punishable under Sections 498A, 323, 504, 506 of the IPC, and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, are hereby quashed. Sd/- (SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM) JUDGE ALB List No.: 1 Sl No.: 88