1 wp2064.11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Criminal Writ Petition No. 2064 of 2011 Mr. Shailesh Prakash Shastri ...Petitioner v/s. The State of Maharashtra & anr. ...Respondents Mr. Amit Date for the petitioner. Mr. Mihir Gheewala for the resondent. Ms. A.T. Jhaveri-APP for the State. CORAM: B.R. GAVAI, J. 26th July, 2011 PC: Leave to amend. The amendment be carried out forthwith. 2. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of the parties. 3. By way of present petition, the petitioners are praying for quashing and setting aside FIR being CR No. 358/2009 for the offence punishable under Section 498 A. 4. The petitioner no.1 was married to respondent no.2 on 26th November, 2007. It appears, however, after the marriage differences arose between the petitioner no.1 and the respondent no.2. As such the aforesaid FIR came to be registered against the petitioner no.1 and other petitioners who are the relatives of the petitioner no.1. 2 wp2064.11.sxw 5. However, subsequently the matter has been settled between the parties. The parties have obtained a decree for divorce by mutual consent in Petition No. 505/2010. 6. The petitioner no.1 and respondent no.2 are personally present in the Court. The respondent no.2 reiterates that the matter has been amicably settled and she does not wish to proceed further with the criminal proceedings. It can, therefore, be seen that the parties have settled their matrimonial dispute. It can further be seen that the parties have agreed to give an end to the criminal litigations pending between them. 7. The Apex Court in the case of B.S.Joshi v. State of Haryana, (2003) 4 SCC 675 has held that this Court should encourage settlement of matrimonial disputes by exercising extraordinary powers under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code to quash the criminal proceedings under Section 498 A of the IPC. 8. In that view of the matter, rule is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a). (B.R. GAVAI, J)