Ajeet Kumar v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko and 2 Others

Court No. - 28 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 5207 of 2022 Applicant :- Ajeet Kumar Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko And 2 Others Counsel for Applicant :- Kirti Kar Tripathi,Shrikant Tripathi Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Ansar Ali Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Ansar Ali, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 , Sri Sushil Pandey, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. The instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for quashing the charge sheet dated 23-11-2020 filed against the applicant before the Special Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lucknow in Case Crime No. 0061 of 2020 registered as Criminal Case No. 10075 of 2021, under Section 498-A, 323, 504 IPC & 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act, P.S. Malihabad, Lucknow. Learned 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

18.09.2022 which has been annexed as annexure no. SA 2 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. On 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. Learned A.G.A. appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid. Now 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. Accordingly, 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. The 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. For a period of one month, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of the Case Crime No. 0061 of 2020, shall remain stayed so far as applicants are concerned. The trial Court is directed for ensuring the fact that all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed are present before the trial Court and a report with respect to this effect shall also be sent along with verification order. Office is directed to return the original compromise deed to the learned counsel for the applicants, if any, after taking the photocopy of the same. Order Date :- 9.11.2023 Anurag High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench