SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS UKHC010122182026 2026:UHC:5852 UKHC010122182026 C528/1509/2026 Rashid Ali & Ors --Applicants Versus State of Uttarakhand & others --Respondents Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. Mr. Gaurav Singh, learned counsel for the applicants. 2. Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned AGA, for the State of Uttarakhand/1. 3. Mr. Susheel Kumar, learned counsel for the respondent nos.2 to 5. 4. The present petition has been moved by the applicants – Rashid Ali S/o Mohd. Asif Ali, Ashiq @ Asif S/o Shaukat, Abdul Kadir S/o Mohabbat Ali and Waseem Ali S/o Anees, all are residents of Badshahpur Sherpur, Police Station Pathri, District Haridwar, for quashing of the entire proceedings of the Criminal Case No.546 of 2024, “State Vs. Rashid and others”, pending in the court of 1st Additional Senior Civil Judge/A.C.J.M., Haridwar, arising out of FIR dated 21.04.2023, bearing Case Crime No.156 of 2023, wherein, all the applicants has been summoned to face the trial for the offences punishable under Sections 323, 452 and 506 of IPC. 5. The petition has been filed along with the compounding application with the affidavit of all the applicants and the respondent informant as well as the victims. 6. The applicants are present in Court. The informant and the victim i.e. respondent nos.2, 3 and 4 are also present in Court. Respondent no.5, since she is pregnant, joined the proceedings through VC. All the applicants and the respondents/informant as well as victims are identified by their counsels. 7. It is submitted that all the applicants and the respondents victims are in fact the relatives belong to the same village and due to some minor issues, there was some hot talks in between them on the date of the incident and now they have settled their dispute amicably and their relations are very cordial. It is submitted that since now the parties have settled their dispute, therefore, the proceedings be dropped. The informant and the victims are present, who submit that they do not want to pursue with the proceedings since the applicants are their relatives and they have settled their disputes, therefore, the proceedings be dropped. 8. On the other side, Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned AGA submits that all the offences are compoundable except the offence punishable under Section 452 of IPC. However, he submits that since now the parties have settled their dispute and all of them belong to the same village and are also relatives, therefore, the continuation of the proceedings will be a futile exercise. 9. After hearing the submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, and taking into consideration that the parties have now settled their dispute and all of them are relative belong to the same village, therefore, there is no useful purpose to continue the proceedings, particularly when, the parties have settled their dispute amicably and their relations are very cordial, this Court is of the view that the compounding application deserves to be allowed. Accordingly, the instant C528 application as well as the compounding application are allowed, and the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No.546 of 2024, “State Vs. Rashid and others”, pending in the court of 1st Additional Senior Civil Judge/A.C.J.M., Haridwar, arising out of FIR dated 21.04.2023, bearing Case Crime No.156 of 2023, is hereby quashed. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 15.07.2026 Nitesh/