HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL MSIC. PETITION No. 6736 OF 2010 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No. 5434 OF 2010. DATED 21ST JULY, 2010. BETWEEN Nandina Saratkala ….Petitioner and Banda Ratna Kumari and anr …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL MSIC. PETITION No. 6736 OF 2010 AND CRIMINAL PETITION No. 5434 OF 2009. ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is ﬁled to quash the proceedings in C.C.No. 1745 of 2002 pending on the ﬁle of the learned II Additional Judicial First Class Magisrate, Rajahmundry. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Counsel for the first respondent that the matter is settled out of Court amicably and hence the proceedings pending before the Court below may be quashed. The aﬃdavit ﬁled along with Crl.P.M.P.No. 6736 of 2010 reﬂecting the compromise settled between the parties, reads as follows: “ I submit that I am the complainant in C.C.No. 1745 of 2002 on the ﬁle of the II Additional Judicial First class Magistrate, Rajahmundry, and as such I am well acquainted with the facts of the case. The police ﬁled charge sheet against the accused for oﬀences punishable under Sections 406 and 420 IPC. I submit that during the pendency of the trial the matter has been amicably settled between me and the accused in C.C.No. 1745 of 2002 on the ﬁle of the II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajahmundry, with the intervention of elders and well wishers of both the parties. As such, in view of the settlement, I submit that I have no objection for the proceedings against the accused to be quashed in C.C.No. 1745 of 2002 on the ﬁle of the II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajahmundry, in Crl.P.No. 5434 of 2009 pending before this honourable Court. It is therefore prayed that this honourable Court may be pleased to permit me to compound the oﬀence with the respondents/Accused and he may be acquitted of the said charges in Crl.P.No. 5434 of 2009 which is pending before this honourable Court.” Today when the matter is posted for hearing, the learned Counsel appearing on either side submitted that inasmuch as the ﬁrst petitioner and the ﬁrst respondent settled the dispute amicably out of Court, this Court may pleased to quash the said proceedings pending before the Court below. The petitioner and ﬁrst respondent are present before this Court in person and produced their identity. This Court perused the same. The learned Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection for quashing the proceedings in view of the amicable settlement arrived at between the parties. In view of the settlement arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that further continuance of the proceedings before the Court below may cause hurdle/prejudice to the parties herein and therefore they are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, proceedings in C.C.No. 1745 of 2002 pending on the ﬁle of the learned II Additional Judicial First Class Magisrate, Rajahmundry are hereby quashed. The Criminal Miscellaneous Petition is ordered accordingly. Consequently, the Criminal Petition is allowed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 20T H JULY, 2010. Msnr.