HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.13679 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners/Accused, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in F.I.R.No.335 of 2011 on the file of the Women Police Station, Charminar (S/Z), Hyderabad, wherein they are facing trial for the offence under Section 498-A IPC. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, both the parties compromised the matter out of Court, and in this regard, the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant filed her affidavit. Therefore, prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in the aforesaid crime. The petitioners and the 2nd respondent are present before this Court. The 2nd respondent produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She stated that at the intervention of family elders and well wishers, the matter is settled and the 1st petitioner agreed to pay an amount of Rs.2,00,000/- in total towards full and final settlement. She further stated that a divorce settlement was entered into between her and the 1st petitioner on 28.10.2011 and that she has entered into the said divorce settlement with free will and consent and there is no force or coercion from any angle for the same. To this effect, she filed an affidavit before this Court. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the aforesaid crime inasmuch as both the parties settled the matter amicably. In the light of the compromise arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that the proceedings against the petitioners in the aforesaid crime can be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in F.I.R.No.335 of 2011 on the file of Women Police Station, Charminar (S/Z), Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. ______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 26th December, 2011 v v