IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.34649 of 2010 RADHA DEVI W/O SHIV NARAIN JAISWAL R/O MOHALLA- SANGRAM CHOUK, WARD NO. 15, P.S. KATIHAR (TOWN) DISTRICT- KATIHAR ……………… Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. SONI DEVI D/O TRILOKI CHOUDHARY, W/O LALOO PRASAD SINGH, R/O MOHALLA- DURGASTHAN COLONY NO. 1, P.S. KATIHAR AND DISTRICT- KATIHAR ……………….Opposite Parties with Cr.Misc. No.39229 of 2010 1. SONI DEVI W/O VISHAL JAISWAL 2. TRILOKI NATH CHOUDHARY S/O LATE DESHRATH CHOUDHARY 3. ANITA DEVI W/O TRILOKI NATH CHOUDHARY 4. MANISH KUMAR S/O TRILOKI NATH CHOUDHARY 5. RAJNISH KUMAR CHOUDHARY S/O TRILOKI NATH CHOUDHARY ALL R/O MOHALLA- COLONY NO. 1 DURGA ASTHAN, KATIHAR, P.S.- AND DISTRICT- KATIHAR ………………… Petitioners Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. SMT. RADHA DEVI W/O SHIV NARAYAN JAISWAL, R/O SANGRAM CHOWK (DRIVER TOLA) P.S. AND DISTRICT- KATIHAR ……………….Opposite Parties ----------- 2. 11.02.2011 Heard the parties. The petitioner of Cr. Misc. No. 34649/10 has sought quashing the order dated 5.8.2010 passed by learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in Katihar (Town) P.S. Case No. 222/08, by which her discharge petition has been rejected in a case which had been instituted under Section 498-A, 323, 324/34 I.P.C. and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act. The petitioner happens to be the mother- in-law of the informant and she had also instituted a case against her daughter-in-law and other family members which was numbered as Katihar (Town) P.S. Case No. 239/2008 in which cognizance has been taken under Section 323,447,, 452, 379, 34 I.P.C. pending before the Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Katihar. Due to intervention of some well wisher of the family both the parties came to understanding that the matter should be compromised which the counsel for the complainant/opposite party, who has come for quashing of proceedings in Katihar (Town) P.S. Case No. 239/08 vide Cr. Misc. No. 39229/08 has also supported. In view of such, the entire proceeding of Katihar (Town) P.S. Case No. 222/08 pending before the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Katihar and Katihar (Town) P.S. Case No. 239/2008 pending before Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Katihar are hereby quashed. The applications stand allowed. Fahad. ( Anjana Prakash, J. )