IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. BHAVANI PRASAD Criminal Petition No.2665 of 2009 Between: Shareef Mohmood and another .. Petitioners/A.1 & A.2 AND The State of A.P. rep. by its P.P., A.P. High Court through P.S.W.P.S. South Zone, Hyderabad and another .. Respondents Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed therewith, the High Court will be pleased to quash the proceedings pending against the petitioners in C.C. No.51 of 2006 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad in view of the settlement and compromise between the parties. The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Syed Ahmed Ali, Advocate for the petitioners and of the Public Prosecutor for the 1st respondent, the Court made the following: ORDER: The 1st petitioner and the 2nd respondent are present before the Court and they are identified by Sri Syed Ahmed Ali, learned counsel for the petitioners. The 2nd respondent stated before the Court that she settled all her disputes with the petitioners and compounded all the offences and therefore, desired the criminal proceedings to be discontinued. The same was the contention of the petitioners in the main criminal petition also. A perusal of the material on record shows that the disputes are purely personal in nature not involving any public policy. Continuance of prosecution will be futile in view of the compromise. Hence, the inherent jurisdiction has to be invoked to quash the proceedings. Accordingly, the further proceedings in C.C. No.51 of 2006 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad are quashed and the criminal petition is allowed accordingly. The parties are informed. _____________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J Date: 28-08-2009 Svv