HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 20106 of 2025 Court No. - 92 HON'BLE RAM MANOHAR NARAYAN MISHRA, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed today is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State of U.P., learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 and perused the record. 3. This application under Section 528 BNSS has been filed for quashing the entire criminal proceedings of Case No. 6124 of 2024 (State vs. Pankaj Singhal and another) arising out of Case Crime No. 185 of 2023, under Sections 420, 406, 323, 504, 506 IPC, Police Station Nauchandi, District Meerut, pending before ACJM, Meerut in the light of compromise dated 21.4.2025. 4. Learned counsel for the parties jointly submitted that vide order dated 22.7.2025 a direction was given to the court below to verify the factum of 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 in presence of the parties. 5. 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 27.8.2025, which has been filed alongwith supplementary affidavit. 6. 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) : Rajesh Kumar Kanojia, Saushthav Guha Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Swayamanand Sisodiya Pankaj Singhal And Another .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) below. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. For the discussions made above, the present application is allowed and consequently, entire criminal proceedings of aforesaid case are hereby quashed. September 23, 2025 Dhirendra/ NA528 No. 20106 of 2025 2 (Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J.) Digitally signed by :- DHIRENDRA KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad