HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.685 & 9550 of 2010 COMMON ORDER: Since parties to the proceedings are one and same, both the criminal petitions are being disposed of together by this common order. Petitioners filed these two criminal petitions, under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in D.V.C.No.7 of 2009 on the file of the XI Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, City Civil Court, Secunderabad, and in C.C.No.528 of 2009 on the file of the X Metropolitan Magistrate at Malkajgiri, Cyberabad, taken on file for the offence punishable under Section 498-A of IPC. When the matter is taken up for hearing today, it is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that during pendency of the Criminal Petitions, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, both the parties compromised the matter out of Court and, to that effect, they entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and Settlement on 16.08.2011 and, therefore, he prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners. Petitioners and the de facto complainant, 2nd respondent herein, are present before this Court and produced their identities and the same are verified by the learned Addl. Public Prosecutor. The 2nd respondent stated that on the advice of elders and well-wishers, herself and the petitioners have compromised the matter out of Court and therefore she intends to withdraw the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioners with free will and consent and there is no coercion or undue influence from any other side for the same. She also filed affidavits in the criminal petitions narrating the compromise. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the proceedings 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 continuation of the criminal proceedings against the petitioners would serve no purpose and invoking the provisions under Section 482 Cr.P.C. the proceedings can be quashed by compounding the offence. Accordingly, both the Criminal Petitions are allowed and the proceedings initiated against the petitioners herein in D.V.C.No.7 of 2009 on the file of the XI Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, City Civil Court, Secunderabad, and in C.C.No.528 of 2009 on the file of the X Metropolitan Magistrate at Malkajgiri, Cyberabad, are hereby quashed and, consequently, the petitioners are acquitted of the offences. The affidavits of the 2nd respondent and copy of the Memorandum of Understanding and Settlement dated 16.08.2011 filed into Court be made as part of this order. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, filed along with the criminal petitions shall stand closed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 21st December, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.685 & 9550 of 2010 (Allowed) 21st December, 2011 cbs