HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6517 OF 2010. DATED 9TH JULY, 2010. BETWEEN Smt. Arshiya Begum ….Petitioner/complainant and Dr.Syed Mehaboob and ors …Respondents/Accused/ complainant HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6517 OF 2010. ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is ﬁled to quash the proceedings in FIR No. 34 of 2010, dated 5.4.2010 on the ﬁle of the Women Police Station, Begumpet, Hyderabad. The petitioner is the complainant herein, who ﬁled a complaint dated 5.4.2010 before the police station alleging that the ﬁrst respondent-husband and in-laws subject her to physical and mental cruelty for additional dowry, for which, the police registered a case in FIR.No. 34 of 2010 for the oﬀences under Section 498-A of the IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Now, she ﬁled an aﬃdavit before this Court stating that the matter has been settled amicably out of the Court and prayed to quash the said FIR. The said aﬃdavit, which is annexed to the present Criminal Petition, reads as follows: “ 1. The petitioner is the complainant in FIR.No. 34/2010 dated 5.4.2010 on the ﬁle of WPS, Begumpet, Hyderabad. The petitioner lodged a complaint against the respondents 1 to 6 alleging oﬀences under Sections 498-A and Sections 4 & 6 of D.P.Act. 2. That after ﬁling of the above complaint, relatives and well-wishers intervened in the matter and settled the issue amicably. Pursuant to the compromise, the parties have entered into a memorandum of settlement on 21.6.2010. 3. That in view of the settlement arrived at by both the parties, it has become necessary to seek quashing of the FIR. 4. That in view of the settlement, nothing survives in the case. If the FIR is allowed to exist, it will hamper the amicable settlement. Further, it is in the interest of justice that the FIR be quashed.” Today when the matter is posted for hearing, the petitioner present in person before this Court and she also produced her identity card to establish her identity. This Court perused the same. The learned Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection for quashing the FIR in view of the amicable settlement arrived at between the parties. In view of the settlement arrived at between the parties, the proceedings in FIR No. 34 of 2010, dated 5.4.2010 on the ﬁle of the Women Police Station, Begumpet, Hyderabad are liable to be quashed and accordingly they are hereby quashed. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 9T H JULY, 2010. Msnr.