HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 23409 of 2025 Court No. - 92 HON'BLE RAM MANOHAR NARAYAN MISHRA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State of U.P., and perused the record. 2. This application under Section 528 BNSS has been filed for quashing the entire criminal proceedings of Case No. 20305 of 2021 (State vs. Raj Kumar Pandey and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 678 of 2020, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 354-kha IPC, Police Station Cantt., District Varanasi, pending before CJM, Varanasi and charge-sheet dated 19.10.2020 as well as cognizance order dated 1.9.2021 in the light of compromise. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant as well as opposite party No.2 jointly submitted that vide order dated 22.7.2025 a direction was given to the court below to verify the compromise executed by the parties. In pursuance of the aforesaid order, the parties appeared before the court below and the learned court below had verified the contents of compromise after recording statement of the parties. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant and learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 jointly submitted that the parties have entered into compromise, which has duly been verified by the court below vide order dated 22.8.2025; proceedings of verification alongwith copy of order has been filed alongwith supplementary affidavit. 5. Learned A.G.A. has fairly conceded that compromise has been effected between the parties and the same has duly been verified by the court Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sudist Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Raj Kumar Pandey And 4 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) below. 6. Hon'ble Apex Court in catena of decisions has held that inherent power can be used to do real and substantial justice as has been held in Gian Singh Vs State of Punjab, 2012 AIR SCW 5333, B.S. Joshi and others Vs State of Haryana, (2003) 3 SCC 675 and Narinder Singh Vs State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466. Hence, inherent power can be exercised to speed up the process of ending the criminal proceedings where the settlement is arrived at between the parties. 7. In view of the aforesaid and the fact that parties do not want to pursue the case any further, the matter is purely of personal nature, which has been mutually settled between the parties by way of the compromise, therefore, no useful purpose would be served in proceeding with the matter further. 8. For the discussions made above, the present application is allowed and consequently, entire criminal proceedings of aforesaid case are hereby quashed. September 24, 2025 Dhirendra/ NA528 No. 23409 of 2025 2 (Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J.) Digitally signed by :- DHIRENDRA KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad