IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOMAS P.JOSEPH WEDNESDAY, THE 25TH MAY 2011 / 4TH JYAISHTA 1933 Crl.MC.No. 1474 of 2011() ------------------------- CC.1060/2010 of JUDL. MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS COURT, PARAPPANANGADI .................... PETITIONERS/ACCUSED. ---------------------------------- 1. FAISAL, AGED 33 YEARS, S/O.AYAMU HAJI, KOTTUVALA HOUSE, P.O. THENMALA, TIRURANGADI TALUK, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. 2. AYAMU HAJI, AGED 62 YEARS, S/O.MOOSAKUTTY HAJI, KOTTUVALA HOUSE, P.O. THENMALA,TIRURANGADI TALUK, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. 3. KUNHIMA, AGED 55 YEARS, W/O.AYAMU HAJI, KOTTUVALA HOUSE, P.O. THENMALA, TIRURANGADI TALUK, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.JACOB SEBASTIAN RESPONDENTS/COMPLAINANT & STATE. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. RAMLA, AGED 27 YEARS, D/O.THAYYIL KUNHEETHU HAJI, TIRUR TALUK, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. 2. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA,ERNAKUALM. R1 BY ADV. SMT.PREETHY R. NAIR R2 BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI.K.J.MOHAMED ANZAR THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 25/05/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: VK THOMAS P. JOSEPH, J. -------------------------------------- Crl.M.C. No.1474 of 2011 -------------------------------------- Dated this the 25th day of May, 2011. ORDER Petitioners are accused in Crime No.541 of 2010 of Thirurangadi Police Station and C.C.No.1060 of 20105 of the court of learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Parappanangadi for offence punishable under Sections 498A read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Prosecution case is that petitioners subjected first respondent to cruelty. Petitioners request to quash the proceeding against them on the strength of a settlement reached with first respondent. I have heard learned counsel for petitioners, first respondent and the learned Public Prosecutor. 2. Learned counsel for petitioners and first respondent have confirmed the settlement and authenticity and genuineness of the joint petition signed by the parties and their respective counsel. In the joint petition it is stated that parties have settled the dispute and that first respondent has no subsisting grievance. It is also stated that first respondent has no objection in droping proceeding against petitioners. 3. Since the dispute is personal to and between petitioners and the first respondent and that dispute is settled, I am inclined to allow the request. Resultantly Criminal Miscellaneous Case is allowed. Final report in Crime Crl.MC No.1474/2011 2 No.541 of 2010 of Thirurangadi Police Station, cognizance taken thereon and proceeding against petitioners, in C.C.No.1060 of 2010 of the court of learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Parappanangadi are quashed. THOMAS P.JOSEPH, Judge. cks