THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRL.P.M.P.NO.400 OF 2011 & CRL.PETITION NO.431 OF 2011 ORDER: 1 On the basis of a report given by the 1st respondent herein, the Station House Officer, Mahila P.S. Kadapa registered a case in Cr.No.8 of 2008 against the petitioners herein and five others for the offence punishable under section 498-A of IPC and under sections 3 & 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. After investigation the police filed a charge sheet and the same was taken on file as C.C.No.72 of 2008 by the learned I Additional Judicial Magistrate of I Class, Kadapa. 2 During the pendency of the said proceedings, it appears, at the intervention of elders on both sides, there was a settlement arrived at between the parties and as per the said settlement, the parties agreed for dissolution of the marriage between the them and that the husband agreed to pay an amount of Rs.7 lakhs to the 1st respondent herein. In the light of the said compromise arrived at between them, the petitioners filed the present petition under section 482 of Cr.P.C. requesting this court to quash the said proceedings along with Crl.P.M.P.No.400 of 2011 seeking permission of this court to permit them to compound the said offences. 3 Parties are present before the court today. When questioned, the 1st respondent by name Smt. Sada Venkata Rama Thulasamma stated that she is not interested in getting the matter prosecuted and she further submitted that she received the said amount of Rs.7,00,000/- and that she has no objection if the said proceedings pending against the petitioners are quashed. 4 In the light of the said submissions made by the de facto complainant, this court is of the view that continuance of the said proceedings is nothing but abuse of process of law. 5 Accordingly, Crl.P.M.P.No.400 of 2011 is ordered and Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.72 of 2008 on the file of the court of the I Additional Judicial Magistrate of I Class, Kadapa registered against the petitioners herein for the offence punishable under sections 498-A of IPC and under sections 3 & 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act are hereby quashed. ____________ SRI T.G.K, J. 20.01.2011 Kvsn