Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:90628 Court No. - 71 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 2120 of 2025 Applicant :- Sharda Prasad And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rajesh Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- Priyanka Srivastava,G.A. Hon'ble Raj Beer Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material available on record. 2. This application u/s - 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred for quashing of the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No. 92849 of 2023 (Devnath Ram Vs. Sharda Prasad and Others), under Sections - 323, 504, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 I.P.C., Police Station - Phoolpur, District - Varanasi, pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No. IV, Varanasi, on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties. 3. It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicants that the dispute between the parties is private in nature and that now both the parties have amicably settled the dispute and the complainant of the case does not want to pursue the impugned proceedings. In the alleged incident no one has sustained any injury. 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. 4. Learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 / complainant 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 complainant does not want to proceed with the impugned proceedings pending before the trial court and the same may be quashed. 5. Learned A.G.A. has no objection, if the parties compromised the matter. 6. I have considered the submissions and perused the record. 7. It is well settled that in appropriate cases criminal proceedings may be quashed on the basis of compromise. In the instant case, the dispute between the parties is private in nature. If parties compromise the matter, it would not have adverse impact on society. The complainant of the case does not want to pursue the impugned proceedings. There is nothing to indicate that parties have any criminal antecedents. 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. 8. In view of the aforesaid, entire impugned proceedings of the aforesaid complaint case, against applicants, namely, Sharda Prasad and Jitendra Prasad are hereby quashed. 9. The application under Section - 482 Cr.P.C. is allowed. Order Date :- 27.5.2025 S Rawat Digitally signed by :- SHOBHIT RAWAT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad