HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 47072 of 2023 Court No. - 78 HON'BLE NALIN KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State of U.P., learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 and perused the record. 2. This application under Section 528 of B.N.S.S. has been filed for quashing the impugned charge-sheet dated 18.02.2021, cognizance/summoning order dated 21.06.2021 as well as entire proceedings registered in its pursuance as Criminal Case No. 1665 of 2021 (arising out of Case Crime No. 190 of 2020), under Sections 379 I.P.C. & Section 4, 21 of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 & Sections 3, 57, 70 of Uttar Pradesh Minor Minerals (Concession) Rules, 1963 & Section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 at Police Station- Jalalpur, District- Hamirpur pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hamirpur. 3. As per rules, the applicant had to pay Rs. 28,25,000/- as compounding charges. The said charges initially were not deposited by the applicant, but now he has deposited the entire amount in favour of the department and the receipt thereof is available on record. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that since the entire compounding charges have been deposited by the applicant to the department which has been received by the department without raising any objection, now no cause of action is there to proceed with the trial of this case. 5. Learned AGA has raised no objection to the aforesaid submissions made by learned counsel for the applicant. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Keshari Nandan Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Anil Dixit .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) 6. In view of the aforesaid facts and considering that the parties do not wish to pursue the case any further, the dispute is essentially of a private nature and has no wider social impact. Since it has been mutually settled between the parties, no useful purpose would be served by proceeding with the matter further. 7. For the discussions made above, the present application is allowed and consequently, the entire proceedings of the aforesaid criminal case are hereby quashed. October 8, 2025 Anjali A482 No. 47072 of 2023 2 (Nalin Kumar Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- ANJALI SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad