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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:107804 Court No. - 71 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 1402 of 2025 Applicant :- Aftab And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Lavkush Kumar Bhatt Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Mohammad Zafar Yab Khan Hon'ble Raj Beer Singh,J.
1. Supplementary affidavit filed by learned counsel for the applicants, in Court today, is taken on record.
2. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 / informant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.
3. This application u/s - 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for quashing of the entire proceedings, including charge sheet dated 23.09.2014 as well as summoning order dated 20.12.2014, of Old Case No. 4032 of 2014 (State Vs. Shiv Kumar Sharma and Others) New Case No. 2920 of 2017 (State Vs. Aftab and Others), arising out of N.C.R. No. 75 of 2014, under Sections - 323, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station - Jahanganj, District - Farrukhabad, pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Sadar, Farrukhabad, on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for applicants that both the parties are residents of the same place and that alleged incident took place due to some misconception. Now both the parties have amicably settled the dispute and compromised the case. In the alleged incident the informant / injured has not sustained any grievous injury. It was submitted that the compromise filed by the parties before the Trial court concerned, has already been verified by the court concerned, copy of which is on record. 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.
5. Learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 / informant 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 informant and injured do not want to proceed with the case pending before the Trial court and thus, the impugned proceedings may be quashed.
6. Learned A.G.A. has no objection if parties compromise the matter.
7. I have considered the submissions and perused the record.
8. It is well settled that in appropriate cases criminal proceedings may be quashed on the basis of compromise by invoking inherent powers enshrined under Section - 482 Cr.P.C.. In the instant case, the matter relates to private dispute between the parties and the informant has not sustained any such injury, which may be dangerous to life. Both the parties are residents of same place. There is nothing to indicate that parties have any criminal antecedents. The informant does not want to proceed with the impugned case against the applicants. The compromise filed by the parties before the Trial court, has already been verified by the court concerned. Considering facts of the matter, it would be in the interest of justice that the impugned proceedings be quashed.
9. In view of the aforesaid, entire impugned proceedings, including charge sheet and summoning order of the aforesaid case against applicants, namely, Aftab, Javed, Majruddin and Shahnoor, are hereby quashed.
10. The application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. is allowed.
Order Date :- 8.7.2025 S Rawat Digitally signed by :- SHOBHIT RAWAT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad