1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 984 OF 2010 (Amit s/o. Pramod J. Mupid .vs. State) AND CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 157 OF 2010 (Amit Pramod Mupid .vs. Varsha @ Madhura w/o. Amit Mupid and anr.) ................................................................................................................................ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ................................................................................................................................ Mr.A.V.Bhide, Adv. for the applicant/s. Mr.M.K.Pathan, A.P.P. for Respondent/State. Ms Amruta Dharangaonkar, Adv. h/f. Mr.I.P.Khisti, Adv. for Respondent/wife. CORAM : A.P. BHANGALE, J. DATED : 12th July, 2011. Heard the learned Counsel for the respective parties. Perused the application for recording mutual settlement and quashing the prosecution against the applicant and respondent nos. 3 to 6, which is filed in the Court today. Also perused the affidavits filed by both the parties in support of the application. The applicant namely Amit s/o. Pramod J. Mupid is present in the Court, who is identified by his Advocate. The respondent namely Varsha @ Madhura is also present in the Court, who is identified by her Advocate. They agree that they have preferred this 2 application to record mutual settlement as they have settled their dispute amicably between themselves and they have recorded details of settlement in this application and have prayed to allow them to compromise and compound the offences accordingly with a further prayer to quash the criminal proceedings. Mr.A.V.Bhide, Adv. for the applicant/s made a reference to the ruling in the case of Jasmine Vipul Bhatia and Ors. vs. State of Maharashtra reported in 2004 (3) Mh.L.J. 262 and contended that, in view of the fact that it was a matrimonial dispute between the husband and the wife and both the parties no longer bear any grudge against each other and want to bury their past, there would be no fruitful purpose to allow continuance of criminal proceedings and prosecution and hence, quashing such proceedings would secure the ends of justice, as observed by this Court in the aforesaid ruling. The application is, therefore, allowed. The proceedings initiated by the F.I.R. registered by the City Police Station, Khamgaon bearing No.130 of 2009 and investigation following the same is hereby quashed. The order dt. 3.5.2010 passed by the learned Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Khamgaon in Criminal Revision No.102 of 2009 as also the proceedings in Misc. Criminal Case No.102 of 2009 pending on the file of 3rd 3 Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Khamgaon are hereby set aside and quashed. Smt. Varsha @ Madhura w/o. Amit Mupid (daughter of Chandrakant Anande) is entitled to the amount deposited by applicant herein Amit s/o. Pramod J. Mupid in this Court or any other Court in respect of these proceedings. In view of the above observations and directions, the Criminal Application for quashing the prosecution against the applicant and respondent nos. 3 to 6 as well as Criminal Application Nos. 984 of 2010 and 157 of 2010 are disposed of. JUDGE jais