IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.3312 OF 2009 Harmeet Singh S/O Gulzar Singh Chandhoke & Ors. ..Petitioners Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..Respondents Shri A.H.H.Ponda for Petitoners Shri Sushant Chavan for Respondent No.2 CORAM : S.C.DHARMADHIKARI, J. DATE : 19th January, 2010. P.C. : 1. The Petition is to quash an FIR. The FIR alleges commission of offence punishable under Section 498A, 406, 323, 324 read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code. 2. The complaint was made by the Respondent No.2 and entertained by the Oshiwara Police Station. The Petitioners are the husband and in-laws of the Respondent No.2. 3. Parallel proceedings before the Family Court, Mumbai, ended in a compromise. The compromise terms filed before the said Court confirm that both sides have withdrawn the allegations and the matter is amicably settled. The amount as envisaged by the terms is already deposited in the Family Court. Both the sides, therefore, jointly request that continuance of criminal proceeding would be an abuse of the process of Court. More so, when the dispute has been amicably settled between the husband and the wife. 4. Hence, in this peculiar fact, this Court exercise its power under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. and it is directed that all proceedings in Complaint No.382 of 2009, on the file of Oshiwara Police Station are quashed. The Petition is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a). (S.C.DHARMADHIKARI, J)