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2025 DAILYLAW 55424 (ALL)

SUVEEN KHAN AND 12 OTHERS v. State of U.P. AND ANOTHER

A482/13749/2024 · 2025-08-10

Yogesh Dubey Joint Registrar Judicial

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:137274 Court No. - 89 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 13749 of 2024 Applicant :- Suveen Khan And 12 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rakesh Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Krishn Kumar Hon'ble Jitendra Kumar Sinha,J. 1. Heard Shri Rakesh Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the applicants, Shri Krishn Kumar, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2/complainant and Shri B.P. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. This application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred for quashing of the entire proceedings, including charge-sheet dated 07.06.2022 & summoning order dated 04.12.2023 as well as entire proceedings of criminal case arising out of Case Crime No. 0117 of 2022, under Sections 147, 148, 149, 452, 323, 504, 506, 352 I.P.C., P.S. Ahmadgarh, District-Bulandshahr, pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court Room No. 1, Bulandshahr, on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties. 3. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the applicants that pursuant to the order dated 14.03.2024 passed in Application under Section 482 No. 3015 of 2024, the parties have entered into compromise and the same has been verified. The said compromise and verification report has been annexed as Annexure Nos. 5 and 7 respectively to the application. It was submitted that the complainant does not want to pursue the impugned proceedings. It was stated that in view of these facts and circumstances, no useful purpose would be served by keeping the impugned proceedings pending and thus, the impugned proceedings may be quashed on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties. 4. Learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 has concurred with the arguments of learned counsel for the applicants and submitted that both the parties have amicably settled the dispute and compromised the matter and the complainant/ opposite party no.2 does not want to proceed with the case pending before the trial court and the impugned proceedings may be quashed. 5. Learned A.G.A. has not controverted the submissions advanced above by the learned counsel for the parties.. 6. I have considered the submissions and perused the record. 7. It is well settled that in appropriate cases criminal proceedings may be quashed on the basis of compromise. In the instant case, it was submitted that both the parties have settled all the disputes and compromised the matter. It was submitted on behalf of both the parties that impugned proceedings may be quashed on the basis of compromise between the parties. If parties compromise the matter, it would not have adverse impact on society. The compromise entered into between the parties and the verification report are on record, wherein it has been stated that the impugned proceedings may be quashed. Considering the law laid down in the case of State of Madhya Pradesh Vs. Laxmi Narayan and others, AIR 2019 SC 1296 and the facts of the matter, it would be in the interest of justice that the impugned proceedings be quashed. 8. In view of the aforesaid, the impugned charge-sheet dated 07.06.2022 & summoning order dated 04.12.2023 as well as entire proceedings of criminal case arising out of Case Crime No. 0117 of 2022, under Sections 147, 148, 149, 452, 323, 504, 506, 352 I.P.C., P.S. Ahmadgarh, District-Bulandshahr are hereby quashed. 9. The application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. is allowed. Order Date :- 11.8.2025 SY Digitally signed by :- SWETA YADAV High Court of Judicature at Allahabad