HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 19224 of 2025 Court No. - 83 HON'BLE CHAWAN PRAKASH, J. 1. Heard Sri Laxmi Kant Bhatt, learned counsel for applicants, Sri Mohammad Javed Akhtar, Advocate holding brief of Sri Chandra Nath Bhatt, learned counsel for opposite party No.2 and learned AGA for the State. 2. The present application under Section 528 B.N.S.S. has been filed by the applicants with a prayer to quash the charge sheet no.161 of 2024 dated 29.05.2024 as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 04.01.2025 and also quash the entire proceeding of Case No.127 of 2025 (State versus Haseen and others), arising out case crime no.135 of 2023, under sections 498-A, 323, 506 IPC and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station-Lohiya Nagar, District-Meerut, pending before the learned Special Chief Judicial Magistrate, Meerut. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that applicants and opposite party no.2 have amicably settled their dispute out of the Court. Applicants approached this Court by filing this application with prayer to quash the proceedings on terms of compromise entered between the parties, this Court vide order dated 25.9.2025 directed the parties to appear before the trial court for verification of the parties and compromise application. Trial court vide order dated 19.5.2026 verified the parties as well as compromise application. He further submitted that applicants and opposite party no.2 compromised the matter and opposite party No.2 does not want to proceed the matter against the applicants. He further submitted that applicants and opposite party no.2 have settled through Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Laxmi Kant Bhatt Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Chandra Nath Bhatt, G.A. Haseen And 2 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) compromise their dispute and as such opposite party no.2 does not wish to press the aforesaid case against the applicants. Opposite party no.2 is ready to withdraw the prosecution of the applicants and in view of the compromise, no fruitful purpose would be served if the prosecution is allowed to go on. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the opposite party no.2 does not dispute the correctness of the submission made by learned counsel for the applicants or the correctness of the documents relied upon by him. He submits that opposite party no. 2 has no objection, if the proceedings in the aforesaid case are quashed. 5. Learned AGA submitted that both the parties have settled their dispute out of the court, hence, no reason to proceed further. 6. The Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Narindra Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466, Parbatbhai Aahir @ Parbatbhai Vs. State of Gujarat (2017) 9 SCC, 641, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303 and State of M.P. Vs. Laxmi Narayanan (2019) 5 SCC 688, wherein Hon'ble Apex Court has categorically held that compromise can be made between the parties even in respect of certain cognizable and non-compoundable offences. Reference may also be made to the decision given by this Court in Shaifullah and others Vs. State of U.P. and another [2013 (83) ACC 278], in which, law expounded by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the aforesaid cases has been explained in detail. 7. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, as noted herein above, and also the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, this Court is of the considered opinion that no useful purpose would be served by prolonging the proceedings of the above mentioned case. 8. Accordingly, the charge sheet no.161 of 2024 dated 29.05.2024 as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 04.01.2025 and also quash the entire proceeding of Case No.127 of 2025 (State versus Haseen and others), arising out case crime no.135 of 2023, under sections 498-A, 323, 506 IPC and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station-Lohiya Nagar, District-Meerut are hereby quashed. NA528 No. 19224 of 2025 2 9. This application under Section 528 B.N.S.S. is accordingly allowed. September 17, 2026 Md Faisal NA528 No. 19224 of 2025 3 (Chawan Prakash,J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHD FAISAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad