IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARNCHAL AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Appn. No. 906 of 2005 With Misc. Application No. 1244 / 2006 1. Zinda Hassan S/o late Shri Chhota 2. Smt. Sitara Begum , W/o Sri Zinda Hassan, Both R/o 4 / 388, Mohalla Shah Madar, Saharanpur, Distt. Saharanpur (U.P.) ........................ Applicants Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal 2. Smt. Firdos Ansari D/o Sri Nisar Ahmad, R/o 170, Chander Nagar, Dehradun District Dehradun. ..................... Respondents Mr. Ramji Srivastava, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. Kishore Kumar, Advocate for respondent No. 2. Hon. Prafulla C. Pant, J. This is application moved on behalf of the applicants / petitioners praying that proceedings in criminal case No. 16 of 2001; State Vs. Zinda Hassan and others, under Section 498-A, 506 of I.P.C. and under Section ¾ Dowry Prohibition Act, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun be quashed, in terms of the compromise entered into between the parties. 2. Parties are present in person before this Court and identified by their counsel. There is a report of Marriage Counselling Cell, copy of which is annexed as Annexure – 2 to this application, in which the Marriage Counselling Cell has also reported that the parties have entered into compromise and the criminal proceedings pending between them, be dropped. A copy of written compromise is also annexed as Annexure – 1 to the affidavit filed in support of application, mentioned above. 3. After verifying the same from the parties and their counsel, this Court allows the application No. 1244 of 2006 and the criminal proceedings in criminal case No. 16 of 2001; State Vs. Zinda Hassan and others, pending before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun, arising out of the matrimonial dispute, are quashed. 4) Accordingly, the petition moved under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, stands allowed. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt. 05th September, 2006. HN