HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.565 OF 2009 AND CRIMINAL R.C.M.P. No.1549 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.565 OF 2009 COMMON JUDGMENT: This Criminal Revision Case is filed by the petitioner P.Chandrasekhar Reddy – husband against the judgment dated 01-04-2009 in Criminal Appeal No.141 of 2007 passed by the learned Special Sessions Judge-cum-IV Additional District Judge, Tirupathi (Before the Court of Sessions, Chittoor Division) confirming the sentence imposed on the petitioner in C.C. No.139 of 2003 by the learned II Additional Judicial magistrate of First Class, Tirupathi for the offences under Sections 498-A IPC and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (for short ‘DP Act’). 2. Criminal R.C.M.P. No.1549 of 2010 is filed by the de facto complainant - wife seeking permission of the Court to compound the offences against the petitioner and consequently to acquit him. 3. The de facto complainant Smt.P. Mohana and the petitioner are present and on being questioned, the de facto complainant reports that the matter has been compromised between them out of Court and now they are living together. 4. In proof of her identity, the de facto complainant produced her original Identity Card bearing No.MZT5802988 issued by the Election Commission of India, which contains her photograph, and it shows her father’s name as Kodandapani, residential address as 16-3- 330, Karanala Vidhi, Tirupathi, Chittoor. Thus, there is no dispute about the identity of the de facto complainant. 6. In the circumstances, particularly in view of the fact that the parties have amicably settled the matter between them out of Court and now they are living together, they can be permitted to compound the offence and the petitioner can be acquitted of the offence. 7. Accordingly, the parties are permitted to compound the offences under Section 498-A IPC and 4 of the DP Act and Criminal R.C.M.P. No.1549 of 2010 is allowed compounding the offences. 8. Consequently, the Criminal Revision Case is allowed setting aside the conviction and sentence imposed on the petitioner by both the Courts below and he is acquitted of the offences under Sections 498-A IPC and 4 of the DP Act. The fine amount, if any, paid by the petitioner shall be returned to him. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J June10, 2010. KTL