HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 39610 of 2025 Court No. - 76 HON'BLE SAURABH SRIVASTAVA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for parties. 2. The instant petition has been preferred with prayer to quash charge sheet dated 21.09.2023, supplementary chargesheet dated 29.01.2024 and cognizance/summoning order dated 20.03.2025 along with entire criminal proceeding of Criminal Case No. 11148 of 2025 (State vs. Gulab Sonkar and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 0263 of 2023, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, P.S.- Maduwadeeh, District Varanasi, pending before learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate II, Varanasi. 3. Learned counsel for applicants submits that on the request of applicants, the matter was referred to Mediation and Conciliation Centre of this Court and by the efforts of mediators, the mediation has been successful and it has been stipulated by the parties that they will withdraw all the pending cases filed against each other including the case connected with the instant petition and all the disputes have been settled in terms of the agreement. 4. It is also stipulated that the case filed by either parties against each other, shall be deemed to have been decided in the light of present settlement. The parties are not having any further claims or demands against each other and all the disputes and differences in this regard, have been amicably settled by the parties. 5. Highlighting the report of Mediation Centre dated 22.01.2026 which has been placed on record, it is submitted that proceedings of the instant case pending before learned concerned court, shall also be quashed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Akhilendra Singh, Lalta Prasad, Prabhat Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Kavita Srivastava, Varsha Singh Gulab Sonkar And 2 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Learned AGA did not dispute the fact that mediation has been successful. 7. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the record, it is evident that with regard to the above mentioned case pending before learned court concerned in shape of Case Crime No.0263 of 2023, the instant application was moved by the applicants. However, the matter was referred to Mediation and Conciliation Centre of this Court and the efforts of the mediator has resulted in amicable settlement between the parties. A settlement has been placed before this Court by the Mediation and Conciliation Centre, Allahabad High Court (appended to the order sheet) wherein the terms and conditions of the settlement has been enumerated and it is categorically stated that the parties have settled the dispute and they do not want to prosecute each other and thus the prayer has been made by learned counsel for the applicants to quash the proceedings pending before learned court concerned. 8. Since the mediation has been successful and report has been sent along with original settlement executed between the parties, thus in view of the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab reported in (2012)10 SCC 303, Shiji and others Vs. Radhika and others Manu/ SC/1341/2011, Manoj Sharma Vs. State of U.P. (2008)16 SCC1, charge sheet dated 21.09.2023, supplementary chargesheet dated 29.01.2024 and cognizance/summoning order dated 20.03.2025 along with entire criminal proceeding of Criminal Case No. 11148 of 2025 (State vs. Gulab Sonkar and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 0263 of 2023, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, P.S.- Maduwadeeh, District Varanasi, pending before learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate II, Varanasi, Agra, are hereby quashed and set aside only in respect of applicants herein. 9. The settlement report of the Medication and Conciliation Centre shall be part and parcel of this order. 10. Accordingly, the instant application is finally disposed of. October 6, 2026 Vivek Kr. NA528 No. 39610 of 2025 2 (Saurabh Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad