IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE NINETH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. BHAVANI PRASAD Criminal Petition No.7253 of 2009 Between: Cheganti Sudhakar and others .. Petitioners/accused 1 to 5 AND The State of A.P. rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad and others .. Respondent Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed therewith, the High Court will be pleased to call for records relating to C.C. No.570 of 2008 on the file of the III Metropolitan Magistrate, L.B. Nagar, Ranga Reddy District and quash the same. The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of Sri A. Prabhakar Rao, Advocate for the petitioners and of Sri G. Kiran Kumar, Advocate for 2 and 3 respondents and of the Public Prosecutor for the 1st respondent, the Court made the following: ORDER: Respondents 2 and 3 and petitioners 3 to 5 are present in person and they are identified by Sri A. Prabhakar Rao, and also by Sri G. Kiran Kumar, learned counsel, who stated that he is entering appearance for respondents 2 and 3 and will be filing Vakalat for respondents 2 and 3 into Registry. The criminal petition has been filed stating that the parties have settled all their disputes on the advice of well-wishers and caste elders and that a settlement was also reduced into writing. Respondents 2 and 3 stated before the Court also that they settled all their disputes and differences with the petitioners and the criminal proceedings may be quashed. The petitioners also reiterated their request. The criminal petition and the material papers show that the disputes are purely personal in nature not involving any public policy and continuance of prosecution is a futile exercise in view of the compromise. Taking a pragmatic view, the vexing litigation has to be put an end to by exercising the inherent powers of this Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Therefore, the further proceedings in C.C. No.570 of 2008 on the file of the III Metropolitan Magistrate, L.B. Nagar, Ranga Reddy District against the petitioners are quashed and the criminal petition is allowed accordingly. The parties are informed. _____________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J Date: 09-09-2009 Svv