2025:UHC:5350 HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition Criminal No. 654 of 2025 25 June, 2025 Mahesh Chandra Pandey Alias Manoj --Petitioner Versus State Of Uttarakhand & others --Respondents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presence:- Mr. Mahendra Singh Rawat, learned counsel for the petitioner. Mr. B.C. Joshi, learned AGA for the State. Mr. Pankaj Semwal, learned counsel for respondent no.3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon'ble Pankaj Purohit, J. By means of the present writ petition, petitioner has put to challenge the First Information Report No.47 of 2025 dated 27.04.2025, under Sections 117, 351(2) & 352 of BNS, 2023, registered with Police Station Kaladungi, District Nainital on the basis of compromise having been entered into between the parties. 2. Along with present criminal writ petition, a joint compounding application has also been filed by the parties, which is duly supported by separate affidavits of the parties. 3. Petitioner- Mahesh Chandra Pandey @ Manoj and respondent no.3-Mahadeep Singh are present in the Court, duly identified by their respective counsel. 1 2025:UHC:5350 4. This Court interacted with the parties specifically respondent no.3. Respondent no.3 stated before the Court that petitioner and respondent no.3 are known to each other and they are residing in the same locality. He further stated that due to intervention of elderly persons of the society, both the parties have amicably settled their disputes and he does not want to prosecute the petitioner. 5. Since the parties have entered into compromise and are living peacefully, this Court is of the opinion that it will be a futile exercise to ask the petitioners to face the criminal prosecution which would ultimately result into the acquittal. 6. In this view of the matter, compounding application (IA/1/2024) is hereby allowed. The compromise arrived at between the parties is accepted. The First Information Report No.47 of 2025 dated 27.04.2025, under Sections 117, 351(2) & 352 of BNS, 2023, registered with Police Station Kaladungi, District Nainital are hereby quashed. Consequently, all the subsequent proceedings pursuant to the impugned FIR automatically shall come to an end. 7. Present criminal writ petition stands allowed accordingly. 8. Pending application, if any, stands disposed off accordingly. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 25.06.2025 AK 2 2025:UHC:5350 3