No. 7421 of 2025 · Allahabad High Court
Case at a glance
- Bench
- SHREE PRAKASH SINGH
Outcome
Disposed of
Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the
Provisions considered
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 s. 482
- Indian Penal Code, 1860 ss. 406, 420, 506
Judgment
: Srees Kumar Srivastava : G.A., Tiwari Shivani Subhash Court No. - 14 HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J. Vakalatnama filed today by Ms. Tiwari Shivani, Advocate on behalf of opposite party no. 2 is taken on record. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Ms. Tiwari Shivani, learned counsel appearing for opposite party no. 2 and learned AGA for the State as well as perused the record. The instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed with the prayer to quash the chargesheet dated 06.07.2013, in Case No. 791 of 2013; State Vs. Naresh Kumar and others, arising out of Case Crime No. 272 of 2013, under Sections 420, 406, 506 IPC, Police Station Khiro, District Raebareli and summoning order dated 23.08.2013. 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 due to some misunderstanding, the instant FIR has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably compromised their dispute.
The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 11.08.2025, which has been annexed as Annexure No. 5 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 2 A482 No. 7421 of 2025 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 party no. 2 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 AGA appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid.
Operative part
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 deed, requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the same. 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 three months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of Case No.
791 of 2013; State Vs. Naresh Kumar and others, arising out of Case Crime No. 272 of 2013, under Sections 420, 406, 506 IPC, Police Station Khiro, District Raebareli, shall remain stayed, so far as present applicants are concerned. The trial court is further 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. 3 A482 No. 7421 of 2025 Office is directed to return back the original compromise deed dated
11.08.2025 to learned counsel for the applicants within a week. September 4, 2025 kkv/ (Shree Prakash Singh,J.) KRISHAN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench
Questions this judgment answers
What did the Court decide in this case?
The Court recorded the following disposition: Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the
Which statutory provisions did this judgment involve?
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 — s. 482; Indian Penal Code, 1860 — ss. 406, 420, 506.
Precedent status how later indexed judgments have treated this case
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