HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6643 of 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-respondent No.1, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against him in D.V.C.No.19 of 2010 on the file of the I Addl. Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Khammam. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the 1st respondent-complainant that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, the matter was compromised between the parties. Therefore, they prayed to quash the proceedings in the Domestic Violence Case. The petitioner and the 1st respondent are present before this Court. The 1st respondent produced her identity before the Court and the same is verified by the learned Addl. Public Prosecutor. She stated that on the advice of elders and well-wishers, herself and her husband-the petitioner herein have compromised the matter out of Court and therefore she intends to withdraw the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner with free will and consent and there is no coercion or undue influence from any other side for the same. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the proceedings in the Domestic Violence Case 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 by invoking the provisions under Section 482 Cr.P.C. the proceedings in the Domestic Violence Case can be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings initiated against the petitioner herein in D.V.C.No.19 of 2010 on the file of the I Addl. Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Khammam, are hereby quashed. The affidavit filed by the 1st respondent-complainant narrating the terms of compromise be made as part of this order. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, filed shall stand closed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 3rd August, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.6643 OF 2011 (Allowed) 3rd August, 2011 cbs