Aditya Singh @ Sukh Nidhan Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. of Home Lko. and Another

Court No. - 28 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 11023 of 2023 Applicant :- Aditya Singh @ Sukh Nidhan Singh Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Pramod Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J.

¶1Sri Sanjay Kumar Singh, advocate, has put in appearance by way of filing vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party no. 2 and the same is taken on record.

¶2Heard Sri Pramod Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Sanjay Kumar Singh, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 and learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

¶3The instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for quashing the entire criminal proceedings of Criminal Case No.1742 of 2020 arising out of Case Crime no.915 of 2019 under Section 468 IPC, Police Station-Kotwali Nagar, District-Raebareli pending before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raebareli including the chargesheet No.1 of 2020 dated

1.1.2020 as well as for quashing of the order dated 12.02.2020 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raebareli.

¶4Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the instant case. He next added that under some misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably compromised their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on

10.07.2023, which has been annexed as annexure no. 7 to the instant application. He next added that now there is no grievance in between the parties with each other and the criminal proceedings against the applicants are the futile exercise as there is no fate of trial and that is amount to harassment of the applicants and thus, the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be quashed.

¶5On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite parties has supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that the parties have settled their dispute amicably through a compromise deed and there is no further grievance of the opposite parties against the present applicants and the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped.

¶6Learned A.G.A. appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid.

¶7Now whether the parties have, in fact, compromised the matter or not, can best be ascertained by the court below as such compromise has to be duly verified in presence of the parties concerned before the Court.

¶8Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that if any such compromise is filed before it, it shall issue notices to all the signatories to the compromise requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the compromise. If the aforesaid compromise is verified, a report to that effect shall be prepared by the court and the compromise will be made part of the record.

¶9The court in that scenario will allow the parties to obtain certified copy of the report as well as compromise and it will be open to the applicants to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings.

¶10For a period of two months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of the Case Crime no.915 of 2019 under Section 468 IPC, Police Station-Kotwali Nagar, District-Raebareli, shall remain stayed so far as applicants are concerned.

¶11The trial Court is directed to examine the fact that whether all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed, the party in the compromise and in this respect, it shall also sent a report along with the verification order.

¶12Office is directed to return the original copy of the compromise deed to the learned counsel for the applicants, if any, after taking the photocopy of the same. Order Date :- 7.11.2023 -Amit K-High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench