1 963.11-wp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 963 OF 2011 Shri Shankar Jotiba Desai. ... Petitioner.. V/s. The State of Maharashtra and another. ... Respondents. S.G.Rajput for the petitioner. Y.M.Nakhwa, APP for the State. Akash Sharma for respondent No.2. CORAM: B.R.GAVAI, J. DATED : 5th July 2011. P.C. : Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of parties. 2. By way of this petition, the petitioner is praying for quashing of C.C.No.455/PW/2008 pending before learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 29th Court at Dadar, Mumbai. 3. The F.I.R. in question came to be registered at the instance of respondent No.2- complainant. The petitioner as well as husband of respondent No.2 are working in Police Department as Police Constables. The allegation of respondent No.2 is that the present petitioner misbehaved with her. 2 963.11-wp 4. The parties have now settled the dispute. The respondent No.2- complainant has filed an affidavit stating the same. She is also personally present in the Court and reiterates that the matter has been settled. 5. In view of the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Madan Mohan Abbot v.. State of Punjab, (2008) 4 SCC 582, I find that no purpose would be served by keeping the criminal proceedings pending except burdening the Criminal Courts which are already overburdened. In that view of the matter, I find that in the interests of justice the criminal proceedings are required to be quashed. However, at the same time, the costs need to be saddled on the parties for setting in motion the police machinery for settling their dispute. 6 Rule is, thus, made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a). (B.R.GAVAI, J.)