HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.M.P.No.7346 OF 2010 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.1488 OF 2009 ORDER: This criminal petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 to 5, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.124 of 2009 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class-cum-Prohibition and Excise Court, Kadapa, for the offences punishable under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 3, 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel for the 2nd respondent-defacto complainant that during pendency of the criminal petition, the matter is settled out of Court amicably between the parties and Crl.P.M.P.No.7346 of 2010 is filed before this Court seeking to quash the proceedings against all the accused in C.C.No.124 of 2009 in view of the compromise. The petitioners herein and the 2nd respondent are present before this Court, whereas accused No.1, husband of the 2nd respondent, is not present. The 2nd respondent produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She stated that herself and the petitioners herein and her husband have compromised the matter and therefore she intends to withdraw the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioners and her husband before the Court with free will and consent and there is no coercion or undue influence from any other side for the same. She also stated that in this connection, she filed an affidavit before this Court, which runs as follows: “I lodged a complaint before Mahila P.S. under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 3,4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act against the petitioners and my husband, accused No.1. After filing charge sheet, the petitioners, who are mother, brothers, and sister of my husband filed the petition seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.124 of 2009 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class-cum-Prohibition & Excise Court, Kadapa. After intervention of the elders and well wishers, I have sorted out all the differences with my husband and his family. My husband filed H.C.O.P.No.8 of 2010 on the file of the Family Court, Kurnool, for restitution of conjugal rights and in the said case I agreed before the learned Judge that I shall join and live with my husband. Now, myself and my husband are living together happily without any differences. My husband has not filed a petition seeking to quash the proceedings in the said C.C. Now, as the matter has been compromised between all of us, continuation of proceedings against all the accused may be compounded. The Hon’ble Court may be pleased to extend the benefit which the present petitioners are being given in this criminal petition even to accused No.1, who is my husband, and quash the C.C.No.124 of 2009 against all the accused. I have no objection if the criminal petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.124 of 2009 is quashed. I am giving this affidavit voluntarily without any threat or coercion.” The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash C.C.No.124 of 2009 inasmuch as both the parties settled the matter amicably. In the light of the settlement arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that the proceedings in C.C.No.124 of 2009 can be quashed. Accordingly, the Crl.P.M.P.7346 of 2010 and the Criminal Petition are allowed and the proceedings initiated against accused Nos.2 to 5 - petitioners herein and accused No.1 in C.C.No.124 of 2009 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class-cum-Prohibition and Excise Court, Kadapa, are hereby quashed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 5th August, 2010 CBS HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Crl.P.M.P.No.7346 OF 2010 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.1488 OF 2009 (Allowed) 5th August, 2010 CBS