1 559.11-apl IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 559 OF 2011 Umesh Shekhar Shedamkar and others. ... Applicants. V/s. The State of Maharashtra and another. ... Respondents. Sanjay Bhatia for the applicants. S.S.Pednekar, APP for the State. V.P.Mali for respondent No.2. CORAM: B.R.GAVAI, J. DATED : 28th July 2011. P.C. : Leave to amend. Amendment to be carried out forthwith. 2. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. Heard finally be consent of parties. 3. By this application, the applicant is praying for quashing of Sessions Case No.78/2011. The applicant No.1 and respondent No.2 were married to each other on 8th May 2005. However, it appears that immediately after the marriage there was a dispute between between applicant No.1 and respondent No.2, as such, an F.I.R. came to be lodged and on the basis of the said F.I.R. aforesaid proceeding is pending before the learned Sessions Court. 2 559.11-apl 4. Now, the matter has been settled between the parties. The parties have placed on record consent terms duly signed by them and their respective advocates. The same are taken on record and marked `X’ for identification. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. In the above view of the matter, rule is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (b). 8. Since the parties have also agreed for return of the properties as stated in clause (ii) of the consent terms, the learned Sessions Court would pass appropriate order for return of the property with respect to articles of the parties. (B.R.GAVAI, J.)