SM 1 59.apl.665.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICTION NO. 665 OF 2011 Akash Bapu Chavan and others ....Applicants Versus Milind Ramchandra Gaikwad and another ....Respondents ____________ Mr. M. S. Mohite for the Applicants. Mr. D. H. Sukla for the Respondent No. 1. Ms. A. T. Jhaveri, APP for the Respondent No. 2-State. CORAM: B. R. GAVAI , J. DATED : 19 TH JULY, 2011. P.C.: Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2. By way of present application, the applicants are praying for quashing the Sessions Case No. 4 of 2011 pending before the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Pune for the offences punishable under Sections 452, 324, 323504, 506, 34, 427 of I.P.C. 3. The F.I.R. is registered on the basis of information given by the Respondent No. 1 alleging therein that when the applicant and all his family members were sleeping in the night, the accused armed with hockey sticks and wooden rods etc. had came to their house and assaulted him. He also submitted that the said persons have also assaulted his friend Kiran Kondiba Gaikwad. SM 2 59.apl.665.11 4. The Respondent No. 1 has filed an affidavit stating therein that he has no objection if the applicants as well as the respondent are both reside in the same village. The applicants as well as the respondent no. 1 have settled their dispute and live peaceful life in harmony of their village. 5. In veiw of the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Madan Mohan Abbot Vs. State of Punjab, reported in (2008) 4 SCC 582, I find that no purpose would be served by keeping the criminal proceedings pending except burdening the Criminal Courts which are already overburdened. In that view of the matter, I find that in the interest of justice the criminal proceedings are required to be quashed. 6. Rule is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a). (B. R. GAVAI, J.)