- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31933 CRL.P No. 10572 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 18TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 10572 OF 2025 BETWEEN: RUDRAMUNI S/O BASAVARAJA B.K., AGED ABOUT 39 YEARS, R/AT: WARD NO.02 HOUSE NO.214, JADARA STREET, RARAVI, BELLARY, PIN - 583121 (AS PER AADHAR CARD). …PETITIONER (BY SRI. SOMASHEKAR.N., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BY NORTH CEN CRIME POLICE, REP. BY ITS STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT BUILDING, BANGALORE-01. Digitally signed by SHARADAVANI B Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31933 CRL.P No. 10572 of 2025 2. SMT. MAMATHA SREE W/O RAVI .N, AGED ABOUT 29 YEARS, R/AT NO.36, 10TH CROSS, POOJAMMA TEMPLE BEHIND, GORAGUNTEPALYA, BENGALURU CITY PIN-560 022. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. ANOOP KUMAR, HCGP FOR R1; SRI. THEJAS.N.S., ADV. FOR R2) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S 482 CR.P.C (U/S 528 BNSS) PRAYING TO QUASH THE PROCEEDINGS INITIATED AGAINST THE PETITIONER IN CC.NO.3877/2023, PENDING ON THE FILE OF THE XLV ACJM, AT BENGALURU BY THE 1st RESPONDENT NORTH CEN CRIME P.S., BANGALORE, FOR THE OFFENCES P/U/S 420 OF IPC, U/S 66(C),66(D) OF I.T. ACT AND ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31933 CRL.P No. 10572 of 2025 ORAL ORDER This petition is filed by the accused/petitioner seeking quashing of the proceedings pending in C.C.No.3877/2023 for the offences punishable under Section 420 of IPC and Sections 66(C), 66(D) of Information Technology Act, 2000. 2. Today, a joint memorandum has been filed under Section 320 read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Respondent No.2, the defacto complainant, is present before this Court. She submits that the dispute arose from a purely monetary transaction and acknowledges that the petitioner/accused has already returned a sum of Rs.1,10,000/-. She further affirms that the settlement is entirely amicable, arrived at voluntarily, and without any pressure or coercion. She expressly states that she has no objection to quash the proceedings and has agreed to withdraw the allegations made against the petitioner/accused. 3. Upon perusal of the joint memorandum and the materials filed along with the petition, it is evident that the dispute is essentially civil in nature. Considering that the petitioner/accused has returned the money and that the - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:31933 CRL.P No. 10572 of 2025 offences are compoundable, this Court is of the view that, to prevent abuse of the process of law, the parties may be permitted to compound the offences punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Sections 66(C) and 66(D) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. 4. In view of the amicable settlement reflected in the joint memorandum, and having regard to the fact that the petitioner/accused has already restituted the amount in question, the proceedings are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the parties are permitted to compound the offences in terms of the joint memorandum. 5. Consequently, the proceedings pending in C.C.No.3877/2023 on the file of the XLV Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bengaluru, are hereby quashed, and the Criminal Petition is allowed. Sd/- (SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM) JUDGE SMJ List No.: 1 Sl No.: 45