2026:UHC:2735 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.700 of 2026 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Ms. Geetanjali Dhami, Advocate for the applicant. Mrs. Pushpa Bhatt, Additional Advocate General for the State of Uttarakhand. Ms. Tanuja Joshi, Advocate for respondent nos.2 & 3 2. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/quash the charge sheet dated 23.04.2025, cognizance/summoning order dated 03.05.2025 and the entire proceedings of Special Sessions Trial No.18 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned Special Sessions Judge (POCSO), Pithoragarh on the basis of compromise between the parties. 3. Compounding application (I.A. No.1 of 2025) is also filed in the matter wherein it is prayed to compound the offence between the parties. 4. Parties are present before the Court today who have been duly identified by their learned counsel. Parties have already filed the affidavits in support of the compounding application, affirming the factum of compromise arrived at between the parties. 5. It is jointly submitted that all disputes and differences between the parties have been amicably settled and resolved. 2026:UHC:2735 6. Learned State Counsel vehemently opposed the compounding application. 7. 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. 8. 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 Special Sessions Trial No.18 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned Special Sessions Judge (POCSO), Pithoragarh, are hereby quashed. 9. C-528 application stands disposed of. (Alok Mahra, J.) 17.04.2026 Arpan