..(1).. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.3562 OF 2008 Ganesh Laxminand Nautiyal and ors. ..Applicants. Versus Smt.Geeta Anantram Gupta and Anr. ..Respondents. .... Ms.Kavita Chavan, Advocate for the applicants. Mr.Shailesh Kantharia, Adv. for respondent No.1. Mr.S.R.Shinde, APP, for respondent No.2-State. .... CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. DATED : 14th October, 2008. DATED : 14th October, 2008. DATED : 14th October, 2008. P.C.: 1. Heard the learned Advocate for the Applicants-orig.accused, the learned Advocate for respondent No.1-orig.complainant and the learned APP for the State. 2. The applicants are seeking quashing of C.C. No.368/PW/06 pending before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 24th Court, Borivali, Mumbai. The said case is under Sections 498-A, 406 r/w. 34 of IPC. 3. The learned Advocate for respondent ..(2).. No.1-orig.complainant has stated that the matter has been amicably settled between the parties. In the Family Court the parties have filed consent terms in the divorce proceedings. In the said consent terms, the complainant-wife had agreed that she will withdraw the proceedings in the present case, before the decree of divorce. The complainant-wife has also tendered her affidavit which is taken on record. In the said affidavit she has prayed that in view of the consent terms filed by the parties before the Family Court, she does not wish to pursue the above matter and the proceedings in the said case be quashed. Looking to the fact that the parties have amicably settled the dispute amongst themselves and looking to the above facts, I am inclined to quash the above case. 4. C.C.No.368/PW/06 pending before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 24th Court, Borivali, Mumbai is quashed. Criminal Application is disposed of accordingly. (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.)