No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS C-528 No. 98 of 2026 Hon ’ble Alok Mah r a, J. Mr. Subham Pandey, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Dinesh Chauhan, learned A.G.A. for the State. 3. Ms. Hemanti Shahi, learned counsel for the private respondent. 4. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/ quash the chargesheet dated 01.05.2025, cognizance/ summoning order dated 31.05.2025 as well as the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 27 of 2025, State Vs. Pankaj Poddar, under Sections 351(2), 351(3), 64(2)(m) of BNS and 5(j)(ii), 5(l)/ 6 of POCSO Act, pending in the court of learned Special Judge, POCSO, Haldwani, on the basis of compromise between the parties. 5. Compounding application (IA/ 2/ 2026) is also filed in the matter wherein it is prayed to compound the offence between the parties under Sections 351(2), 351(3), 64(2)(m) of BNS and 5(j)(ii), 5(l)/ 6 of POCSO Act. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the parties have amicably settled their dispute and have entered into a compromise. 7. Parties are virtually present before this Court and are duly identified by their respective counsels. Parties have also filed their respective affidavits stating the facts of compromise between them. 8. It is further submitted by the parties that they have solemnized their marriage on 08.12.2025 and there is a baby girl aged about six months born out of the wedlock. 9. 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. 10. Following the aforesaid ratio, present compounding application is allowed. The offences between the parties are permitted to be compounded. As a result, the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 27 of 2025, State Vs. Pankaj Poddar, under Sections 351(2), 351(3), 64(2)(m) of BNS and 5(j)(ii), 5(l)/ 6 of POCSO Act, pending in the court of learned Special Judge, POCSO, Haldwani, are hereby quashed qua the applicant. FIR and charge-sheet filed pursuant thereto stand quashed. 11. C-528 application stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms. ( Alok Mah r a J.) 25.02.2026 Ujjwal