1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.350 OF 2009 Rajendra Jawaharlal Maloo and another PETITIONERS VERSUS The State of Maharashtra and others RESPONDENTS Mr.S.S.Deshmukh, learned counsel for petitioners. Mr.B.J.Sonwane, learned APP for respondent State. Smt.S.S.Jadhav, learned counsel for respondent no.3 Mr.P.V.Barde, learned counsel for respondent no.4 to 7 (CORAM : A.V.POTDAR, J.) DATE : 29/01/2010 PER COURT : 1. This is a petition, under Articles 226 and 227 of The Constitution of India r/w. Section 482 of The criminal Procedure Code, by which the petitioners have prayed to quash and set aside the FIR at CR No.9/2009, registered with Bhingar Camp Police Station, Ahmednagar for an offence punishable u/s. 109, 120-B, 406, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of The IPC alongwith sections 13(1)(C) and 13(2) of The Prevention of Anti Corruption Act. 2. It appears that Rule came to be issued in this petition on 30/06/2009. 2 3. The petitioners have filed Criminal Application No.4358/2009 in this petition seeking to allow the present writ petition in view of the fact that the parties have agreed that the present dispute is purely of civil nature and hence there is no propriety in continuing with the said offence. In view of the compromise arrived at between the parties, the criminal application to be allowed by this Court. 4. In the premise and considering the fact that the parties have come to an agreement that the dispute is of civil nature and they want to avail appropriate civil remedy, there is no necessity in continuing with the present offence. 5. In the result, without touching to the merits of the matter, this Criminal Writ Petition is allowed in terms of prayer clause “B” of the petition. Consequently, the FIR bearing CR No.9/2009, registered in Bhingar Camp Police Station, Ahmednagar, so far as it relates to the present petitioners, is quashed and set aside. 6. Rule is thus made absolute on the terms indicated above. (A.V.POTDAR, J.) khs/JAN 2010/Cri.w.p.350-09