2026:UHC:2107 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPCRL No. 439 of 2026 In IA No. 01 of 2026 (Compounding application) Hon'ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Akshay Pradhan, learned counsel for the petitioners. 2. Mrs. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. Ms. Radha Arya, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. Shashank Upadhyay, learned counsel for the respondent no.2. 4. Instant writ petition has been preferred under Article of 226 of Constitution of India for quashing of the First Information Report dated 09.10.2023 bearing FIR No. 0573 of 2023, P.S. Gangnahar District Haridwar wherein the petitioners have been implicated for the offences punishable under Sections 313, 323, 498-A, 504 and 506 of IPC read with Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. 5. The writ petition is supported with the compounding application and the affidavit of the petitioners and respondent no.2. The petitioners and the respondent no.2 joined the proceedings through V.C. and identified by their respective counsels. 6. It is contended in the compounding application that both the parties have settled their dispute to get the divorce by way of mutual consent and towards permanent alimony, the petitioner no.1, the husband agreed to pay a sum of Rs.22,000,00/- (Rs. Twenty Two Lakhs). It is also apprised by the learned counsel for the parties that in the divorce proceeding, 2026:UHC:2107 the first motion has already been completed and tomorrow is the date fixed for the second motion. 7. This Court also interacted with the petitioners as well as the respondent/complainant and both of them submits that they have settled all their disputes in order to get divorce by way of mutual consent 8. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State, on instructions submits that in the FIR, the investigation has already been completed and the charge sheet has been filed, but the cognizance has not been taken so far. Apart from this, she submits that since the parties have settled their disputes, therefore, there is no useful purpose to proceed further pursuant to the impugned FIR. Therefore, the compounding application can be allowed. 9. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the averments as made in the compounding application as well as the fact that both the parties have decided to get divorce by way of mutual consent, and has been proceeded second motion is fixed tomorrow this Court is of the view that there is no useful purpose to proceed further pursuant to the impugned FIR. 10. In such view of the matter, the writ petition and the compounding application are allowed and the impugned FIR is hereby quashed. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 24.03.2026 Nahid 2026:UHC:2107