15.07.2026 Serial no. 07 [Srimanta] Ct. No. - 29 IA No.:CRAN/1/2025 in CRR 5063 of 2025 SOFIA HAQUE -VS- STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ANR. Mr. Shatadru Lahiri, Ms. Pallavi Ray, Advocates … … For the Petitioner. Mr. Kallol Mondal, Ld. P.P., Mr. Shataroop Purkayastha, Advocate ……For the State. Mr. K. Kashyap, Advocate ……For the Opposite Party No. 2. 1. The instant complaint has been lodged by opposite party no. 2 herein alleging, inter alia, that she received abusive messages from social media which was allegedly posted by the present petitioner. Pursuant to said complaint, Cyber Police Station Kolkata Case No. 66 dated 29.06.2019 was registered under Sections 66/66C/67 read with Section 43 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 509 of Indian Penal Code. After completion of investigation, the Investigating Agency submitted charge-sheet against the petitioner. 2. During pendency of the instant proceeding, the parties have amicably settled their dispute and the parties being desirous of leading their life peacefully have come to an amicable settlement by way of which they have put to rest 2 all their disputes which had arisen due to certain misunderstanding. 3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that in view of the amicable settlement, the de facto complainant does not want to continue further with the impugned proceeding and to that extent the petitioner and the de facto complainant have filed one connected application being CRAN/1/2025. She further submits that further continuance of the impugned proceeding shall be mere abuse of the process of the Court. 4. De facto complainant appeared today through virtual mode and submits that she does not want to proceed further with the present criminal proceeding, as they have amicably settled their dispute and therefore she prays for dropping the criminal proceeding. Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the State submits that the offence is non- compoundable. 5. Having heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and both opposite parties and also upon hearing the de facto complainant who appeared through virtual mode duly identified by learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party no. 2 and the petitioner, I find that the de facto complainant has decided not to support the imputations leveled in the complaint during trial and as such probability of conviction of the present petitioner is 3 bleak, even if the trial is allowed to proceed. It further appears that the parties have amicably settled their dispute and they have filed a connected application to that extent and both petitioner and opposite party no. 2 have prayed for quashment of the proceeding and as such, if the prayer for quashment made by them is refused only on the ground that the offence is non-compoundable, then it may become counter-productive and as such I find that in the interest of their future peaceful life, this is a fit case where the impugned criminal proceeding should be quashed invoking this Court’s jurisdiction under Section 528 of the BNSS. 6. CRR 5063 of 2025 thus stands allowed. The impugned proceeding being GR(S) Case no. 773 of 2019, presently pending before learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Calcutta is hereby quashed. 7. All parties are to act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of the Calcutta High Court. (Dr. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J.)