HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.M.P.No.7063 of 2011 & CRIMINAL PETITION No.6698 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 3, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.37 of 2011 on the file of the XV Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, taken on file for the offences under Sections 498-A, 342 r/w 34 IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the 1st respondent-defacto complainant that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, the matter is compromised between the parties amicably and to that effect Crl.P.M.P.No.7063 of 2011 is filed before this Court with a prayer to record the compromise and to quash the proceedings in the C.C. Therefore, they prayed to quash the proceedings in the C.C. The 1st respondent is present before this Court and produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She stated that on the advice of elders and well-wishers, herself and the petitioners have compromised the matter out of Court and therefore she intends to withdraw the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioners with free will and consent and there is no coercion or undue influence from any other side for the same. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the C.C. inasmuch as both the parties settled the matter amicably. In the light of the compromise arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that the proceedings in the C.C. can be quashed by invoking the provisions under Section 482 Cr.P.C. Accordingly, Crl.P.M.P.No.7063 of 2011 and the Criminal Petition No.6698 of 2011 are allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.37 of 2011 on the file of the XV Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, filed shall stand closed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 5th August, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.M.P.No.7063 OF 2011 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.6698 OF 2011 (Allowed) 5th August, 2011 cbs