C-482 No. 112 of 2010 With Compounding App. 72 / 100 Hon. Prafulla C. Pant, J. Mr. Mohit Maulekhi, Advocate present for the petitioners. Mr. Nandan Arya, A.G.A. for the State present for respondent No. 1. Mr. M.S. Bisht, Advocate present for respondent No. 2 (complainant). Complainant Punam Ahuja (respondent No. 2) and her husband, petitioner No. 1 Mukesh Ahuja are present in person before this Court. Heard learned counsel for the parties. By means of this petition, moved under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioners have sought quashing of the proceedings of criminal case No. 1322 of 2006; State Vs. Mukesh Ahuja and others, relating to offences punishable under Section 323, 326, 506, 498-A of I.P.C., and one punishable under Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, police station Mallital, District Nainital, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nainital. Learned counsel for the parties state that the parties to the matrimony have entered into compromise (copy of which is filed as Annexure –4 to the petition). Parties present in person in the Court verified the same. In view of the principle of law laid down in B.S. Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana and another, 2003 (4) Supreme Court Cases 675, this petition deserves to be allowed in view of the compromise entered into between the parties to the matrimony. Accordingly, the proceedings of the criminal case No. 1322 of 2006; State Vs. Mukesh Ahuja and others, relating to offences punishable under Section 323, 326, 506, 498-A of I.P.C., and one punishable under Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, police station Mallital, District Nainital, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nainital, against the petitioners, are hereby quashed. The petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, stands disposed of. (Compounding Application No. 72 of 2010 also stands disposed of). (P.C. P., J.) 09.02.2010 HN