HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6801 OF 2010. DATED 26th JULY, 2010. BETWEEN K.Salahuddin and ors ….Petitioners/Accused and The State of AP, rep. By its Public Prosecutor and ors. …Respondent/Complainant HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6801 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is ﬁled to quash the proceedings in C.C.No. 331 of 2008 on the ﬁle of the learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate-cum-Mahila Court, Hyderabad. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Counsel for the second respondent that the matter is settled out of Court amicably and hence the proceedings pending before the Court below may be quashed. The aﬃdavit ﬁled by the second respondent/complainant before this Court, reﬂecting the compromise settled between them, reads as follows: “ NOW THIS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITNESSETH AS UNDER: 1. That the First Party assures that he will take Second Party into the Matrimonial life and set up the family in a separate house along with their two children to live amicably 2. That the Second Party is willing to join and live together with the First Party keeping in mind the welfare of the children and as well as the family. 3. That the First Party and Second Party assure each other they shall not allow the unnecessary interference of their respective parents and their family members and other relations in the family issues of the parties to this Memorandum of Understanding . 4.That both the parties hereby undertake to live amicably by developing mutual understanding among them. And we shall not live any room for petty quarrels and they will solve the same mutually 5. That the second party will withdraw the complaint made in Malkagiri Police Station under Section 498-A of IPC on dated 27th July 2007 FIR No. 424 of 2007 against the first party and his family members” Today when the matter is posted for hearing, the learned Counsel appearing on either side submitted that inasmuch as the petitioners/Accused and the second respondent/complainant settled the dispute amicably out of Court, the aforesaid proceedings pending before the Court below may be quashed. The second respondent/defacto complainant is present before this Court in person and produced her identity. This Court perused the same. She stated before this Court that in view of the compromise arrived at, she intends to withdraw the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioners before the Court below with free will and consent, and, there is no coercion or undue inﬂuence from any other side for the same. The learned Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the aforesaid proceedings pending before the Court below in view of the amicable settlement reached between the parties to the lis. In view of the settlement arrived at between the parties, this Court is of the view that further continuance of the proceedings before the Court below may cause hurdle/prejudice to the parties herein and therefore they are liable to be quashed. Accordingly, proceedings in C.C.No. 331 of 2008 on the ﬁle of the learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate-cum-Mahila Court, Hyderabad are hereby quashed. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 26th JULY, 2010. Msnr.