HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.13710 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners/Accused Nos.1 to 7, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.826 of 2010 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, wherein they are facing trial for the offences under Sections 498-A read with 34 IPC and Sections 4 & 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, both the parties compromised the matter out of Court, and in this regard, the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant filed her affidavit. Therefore, prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in the aforesaid C.C. The petitioners 2 to 7 and the 2nd respondent are present before this Court. The 2nd respondent produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She stated that at the intervention of family elders and well wishers, the matter is settled amicably between the parties and in terms of the settlement and compromise arrived between the parties, she intends to withdraw the criminal case registered against the petitioners with free will and consent and there is no coercion or undue influence from any other side for the same. To this effect, she filed the affidavit before this Court. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the C.C. inasmuch as both the parties settled the matter amicably. In the light of the compromise arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that the proceedings against the petitioners in the aforesaid C.C. can be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in C.C.No.826 of 2010 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. ______________ RAJA ELANGO, J 23rd December, 2011 v v