]SL. No. Date Office Notes v. Diwan Singh under Section 354

Mr. B.S. Koranga, Mr. Lalit Goswami and Mr. Deepak Chandra, learned counsel for the Appellant. 2. Mr. N.S. Kanyal, learned AGA assisted by Mr. Pramod Tiwari, learned AGA for the State. 3. Mr. Sachin Veer Singh, learned counsel for Respondent no.2. 4. Present criminal appeal has been filed by the appellant under Section 347 of Cr.P.C. alongwith compounding application, which is paper no.37 and the same is supported with the affidavits of appellant and respondent no.2 wherein signatures have been annexed. 5. Appellant as well as respondent no.2 are present in the Court. They are duly identified by their respective counsel. this criminal appeal, 6. appellant has sought setting aside of judgment and order dated 03.05.2024 passed by learned Special Session Judge (SC/ST Act) Pithoragarh in S.S.T. No.24 of 2019 State vs. Diwan Singh under Section 354, 452 IPC and 3(1)(w)(i) & 3(2)(va) SC/ST Act. Learned counsel for the parties have filed 7. respective affidavits along with compounding application stating therein that they do not wish to pursue the present criminal case any further and a compromise has been entered between them. By means of in view of

#8. Learned State counsel has opposed the compounding application and submits that some of the offences are non compoundable. 9. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the material available on record. 10. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and compounding application is allowed. The entire proceedings arising out of the S.S.T. No.24 of 2019 State vs. Diwan Singh (Case Crime No.01 of 2019) under Section 354, 452 IPC and 3(1)(w)(i) & 3(2)(va) SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are hereby quashed. 11. Accordingly, stands disposed of. instant criminal appeal the above, Arti (Ashish Naithani, J.) 10.04.2026