IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application(C482) No. 244 of 2006 1. B.D. Pathak S/o Shri Jagannath Pathak R/o B 1401, Indira Nagar, Lucknow(U.P) 2. Smt. Tara Pathak,W/o Shri B.D. Pathak R/o B 1401, Indira Nagar, Lucknow(U.P) 3. Ajay Pathak S/o Shri B.D. Pathak R/o Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. Narora (Bulandshahar) Uttar Pradesh. …………..…Applicants. Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal 2. Smt. Mayuri Pathak W/o Ajay Pathak,D/o Sh. Harishankar Joshi R/o 16 Vanasthali, Ballupur, Dehradun. ….Opposite parties. Shri J.C. Joshi, Senior Advocate, Assisted by Shri Chetan Joshi, Advocate present for the petitoner. Shri M.A. Khan, Brief Holder, present for the State. Shri J.C. Pande, Advocate, present for respondent No.2/complainant. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. By means of this petition, moved under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(for short Cr.P.C), the petitioners have sought quashing of the proceedings of criminal case No. 778 of 2006, State vs. Ajay 2 Pathak & others relating to offences punishable under section 498-A, 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C. and one punishable under section ¾ Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (since transferred to the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate III, Dehradun). 3. Learned counsel for the parties state that parties to matrimony have entered into compromise. On the last date after entering into compromise, the parties have filed the application before this Court alongiwth affidavit. 4. In view of the Principle of Law laid down in B.S. Joshi vs. State of Harayana (2003) 4SCC page 675, this Court is of the view that since parties to the matrimony have entered into compromise the petition under section 482 of Cr.P.C. deserves to be allowed. 5. Accordingly the petition under section 482 of Cr.P.C. is allowed, the proceedings of criminal case No. 778 if 2006 State vs. Ajay Pathak & others relating to offences 3 punishable under section 498-A, 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C. and one punishable under section ¾ of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, (since transferred to the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun) are hereby quashed. Dt:26.04.2010 parul (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) 4