THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD CRIMINAL PETITION No.2778 of 2007 DATED:10.09.2009 Between: N.Eshwar Rao and another .. Petitioners And R.S.Mallikarjuna and another .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD CRIMINAL PETITION No.2778 of 2007 ORDER: The petitioners and the first respondent are present in person and they are identified by Sri A.Eshwar, learned counsel representing Sri T.M.K.Chaitanya, learned counsel for the petitioners. The Criminal Petition itself has been filed referring to the parties reconciling their differences on the intervention of the well wishers and requesting for discontinuance of the criminal proceedings. The Criminal Petition also referred to various precedents from the Apex Court and this Court, permitting such compromise and compounding of offences under such circumstances and quashing of consequential proceedings. The material on record discloses that the disputes are purely personal in nature and there is no involvement of any public policy and the continuance of the prosecution will be a futile exercise in view of the compromise. Under such circumstances, the inherent jurisdiction can be invoked to put an end to the vexing litigation. The petitioners and the first respondent stated before this Court also that in view of the compromise, the further criminal proceedings may be quashed. Therefore, the inherent jurisdiction of this Court should be justifiably invoked to quash the criminal proceedings. Accordingly, the further proceedings in P.R.C.No.13 of 2001 on the file of the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam are quashed and the Criminal Petition is allowed. The parties are informed. ___________________ G. BHAVANI PRASAD, J 10th September 2009 KH