HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.M.P.No.15971 OF 2011 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.5724 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.19 of 2011 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, wherein they are facing trial for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A read with 34 IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the defacto complainant-2nd respondent herein that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, both the parties compromised the matter out of Court, and in this regard, the 2nd respondent filed her affidavit along with petition being Crl.P.M.P.No.15971 of 2011 with a prayer to record the compromise. Therefore, they prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in the aforesaid C.C. The petitioners and the 2nd respondent are present before this Court. The 2nd respondent produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She stated that as the matter has been settled between herself and the petitioners before the elders, 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. In the affidavit filed by the 2nd respondent, it is stated that due to intervention of both sides elders and well wishers, she agreed for compromise. 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. Accordingly, the Crl.P.M.P.15971 of 2011 and the Criminal Petition are allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.19 of 2011 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. ______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 28th December, 2011 cbs