2026:UHC:1722 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS C528 No.1844 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Lalit Miglani, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. K.S. Bora, Deputy Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand. Mr. Shariq Khurshid, Advocate for respondent no.3. 2. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/quash the charge sheet dated 02.04.2025, summoning order dated 27.05.2025 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.3893 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First, Dehradun on the basis of compromise between the parties. 3. F.I.R. was lodged wherein the complainant alleged that the engagement of the applicant with respondent no.3 was solemnized on 09.06.2024 and the date of marriage was fixed for 15.12.2024. However, the marriage could not be solemnized as the applicant allegedly refused to marry thereafter. Consequently, the aforesaid F.I.R. was lodged against the applicant as well as his father and mother. 4. A compounding application (I.A. No.1 of 2026) has also been filed in the present matter praying that the offences be permitted to be compounded in view of the compromise arrived at between the parties. 5. The parties are present before this Court and have been duly identified by their respective learned counsel. They have also filed their respective affidavits affirming the factum of compromise entered into between them. 2026:UHC:1722 6. Respondent no.3 has submitted that she does not wish to pursue the present proceedings any further, as at the relevant time she was agitated due to the refusal of the applicant to solemnize the marriage after the engagement. It has further been submitted that, in terms of the settlement arrived at between the parties, the applicant has handed over two demand drafts amounting to ₹6,00,000/- to the complainant in Court today in the presence of their respective counsel. It is jointly submitted by the parties that the dispute between them has been amicably settled and they have resolved all their differences. 7. Learned State Counsel vehemently opposed the compounding application. 8. Hon’ble Supreme Court, in a catena of its judgments, has observed that in cases where because of the compromise arrived at between the parties, possibility of conviction is remote and bleak, the High Court may quash the criminal proceedings as continuation of the same would cause great prejudice and injustice to the accused. 9. Following the aforesaid ratio, present compounding application is allowed. The offences between the parties are permitted to be compounded. As a result, entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.3893 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First, Dehradun, are hereby quashed. 10. C-528 application stands disposed of. (Alok Mahra, J.) 13.03.2026 Arpan ARPAN JAISWAL Digitally signed by ARPAN JAISWAL DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=eabb68a3895e41937c266c23964c0485365445e3a20dddb739 3398f9fe45ba3e, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=060FC17022BEAE3DE215D68D9D454C5109CB98744635 1E4DF04AADAA2C2CEA66, cn=ARPAN JAISWAL Date: 2026.03.13 18:13:47 +05'30'