THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6641 OF 2011 ORDER: Petitioners approached this Court with a prayer to quash the F.I.R. No.113 of 2011 of the Mellachervu Police Station, Nalgonda District registered for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 447, 448, 324 and 506 IPC and 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 2. Heard. 3. Petitioners are the accused. 1st petitioner is the husband, 2nd petitioner is the mother-in-law and the 3rd petitioner is the sister-in- law of the de facto complainant. They filed the present petition seeking to quash the above said FIR. 4. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, petitioners and the de facto complainant are present before this Court. Petitioners field ……………………. in proof of their identity. They stated that at the intervention of elders and well-wishers, the 1st petitioner and the de facto complainant entered into a compromise for dissolution of the marriage with mutual consent. For that purpose, they already filed HMOP No.29 of 2011 before the Family Judge, Nalgonda under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, seeking divorce under through mutual consent with various conditions as such, she has no objection for quashing the further proceedings against A-1. An affidavit is also filed by the 1st petitioner and the de facto complainant narrating the same. 5. This Court perused the entire material on record. Considering the fact that the parties have compromised the matter out of Court, this Court is of the view that continuation of the criminal proceedings against the accused would serve no purpose, and in view of the guidelines laid down by Hon’ble Supreme Court, by exercising inherent powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the further proceedings against the accused can be quashed by this Court. 6. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the F.I.R. No.113 of 2011 of the Mellachervu Police Station, Nalgonda District is hereby quashed. Affidavit of the petitioner No.1 – accused No.1 and the de facto complainant be made as part of this order. 7. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, filed in this Criminal Petition shall stand closed. __________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO August 04, 2011. KTL