1 669.11-apl IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 669 OF 2011 Miss Rachana Shivaji Bhosale. ... Applicant. V/s. The State of Maharashtra and another. ... Respondents. Vishal Ingawale for the applicant. Y.S.Shinde, APP for the State. Prashant Malik for respondent No.2. CORAM: B.R.GAVAI, J. DATED : 14th July 2011. P.C. : Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of parties. 2. By this application, the applicant is praying for quashing of C.R.No.368/2010 which was registered at the instance of respondent No.2- complainant. 3. The respondent No.2 and the present applicant were working in a firm viz. M/s.Super Clean Environmental Engineers Pvt.Ltd. The F.I.R. came to be registered with the allegation that the applicant who was entrusted with a Laptop for doing her official work did not return the same. 2 669.11-apl 4. The matter is, now, settled between the parties. An affidavit is filed on behalf of respondent No.2- complainant stating therein that an F.I.R. was lodged on account of some misunderstanding and that the matter is now settled between the parties. The consent terms duly signed by the parties are placed on record. From the perusal of the complaint it would reveal that the allegations are totally personal in nature. There is no element of public law involved in the crime. 5. In view of the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Madan Mohan Abbot v.. State of Punjab, (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 interests of justice the criminal proceedings are required to be quashed. However, at the same time, the costs need to be saddled on the parties for setting in motion the police machinery for settling their dispute. 6. Rule is, thus, made absolute by quashing C.R.No.368/2010 registered with N.M.Joshi Marg Police Station. (B.R.GAVAI, J.)