HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 27929 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., Sri Shubhas Kumar, learned counsel for respondent no. 2 and perused the record. 2. This application under Section 528 BNSS has been filed for quashing the entire criminal proceedings of Case No. 2266 of 2023 (State vs. Pratap Singh and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 51 of 2023, under Sections 420, 406 IPC, Police Station Bamrauli Katra, District Agra, pending before Judicial Magistrate-I, Fatehabad, Agra and charge-sheet dated 11.9.2023 as well as cognizance order dated 27.11.2023 in the light of compromise dated 16.12.2024. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that vide order dated 17.2.2025 a direction was given to the court below to verify the factum of compromise executed by the parties. In pursuance of the aforesaid order, learned court below had verified the contents of compromise. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant and learned counsel for the respondent no. 2 submitted that the parties have entered into compromise, which has duly been verified by the court below vide order dated 7.3.2025. 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 below. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ashish Goyal Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Pratap Singh And 3 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) 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 9, 2025 Dhirendra/ NA528 No. 27929 of 2025 2 (Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J.) Digitally signed by :- DHIRENDRA KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad