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.1657 of 2009 Between: Mir Liaquat Ali Khan 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., C.C.S., D.D., 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.354 of 2006 on the file of XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad against the petitioners. 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 petitioners and the 2nd respondent are present in person before the Court and they are identified by Sri Syed Ahmed Ali, learned counsel for the petitioners. The criminal petition itself has been filed stating that the parties have settled all their disputes and differences and compounded the offences and they stated the same before the Court also and the 2nd respondent requested that the criminal proceedings may be quashed against all the accused in the criminal case. A perusal of the material papers on record shows that the disputes are purely personal in nature not involving any public policy and the compromise makes any continuance of the prosecution a futile exercise. A pragmatic view should be taken to quash the proceedings in exercise of the inherent jurisdiction so as to put an end to the vexing litigation. Accordingly, the further proceedings in C.C. No.354 of 2006 on the file of the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad are quashed and the criminal petition is allowed accordingly. The parties are informed. _____________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J Date: 28-08-2009 Svv