THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION NO.7328 OF 2011 ORDER: The petitioners-Accused Nos.1 to 6 preferred this petition seeking directions to the lower appellate Court to consider the petition filed by them seeking relief of compounding the offences before the lower appellate Court. When the said application was filed, the lower appellate Court rejected the same on the ground that the offences are not compoundable in nature. Learned counsel for the petitioners also fairly submitted that she has not questioned the rejection of the said petition, since the said order is in accordance with law and the said offences are not compoundable in nature. But the learned counsel has sought a direction to the lower appellate Court to take the petition on file and to consider the same at the time of disposal of the case and the same can also be treated as a mitigating circumstance to dismissal of the appeal concerned. Hence, this Court is also of the view that there is nothing wrong in the order passed by the learned Sessions Judge and at the same time when the parties are intending to compound the offences and further they are related to each other, the learned Sessions Judge is directed to take up the petition on file and consider the contents in the said application as a mitigating circumstance either to reduce the sentence or to acquit the accused. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Registry is directed to return the petition, which was rejected by the learned Sessions Judge, to the learned counsel for the petitioners to enable her to file the same before the lower appellate Court. _______________ (RAJA ELANGO, J) 23rd August 2011 Note: CC by day after tomorrow B/O RRB