HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1873 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-defacto complainant, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against respondents 1 to 3-accused in C.C.No.36 of 2011 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, taken on file for the offences under Section 498-A IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as respondents 1 to 3 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 against the petitioners in the calendar case. The petitioner and respondents 1 to 3 are present before this Court. The petitioner stated that on the advice of elders and well-wishers, herself and respondents 1 to 3 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 further stated that they entered into a Matrimonial Settlement Deed in terms of the compromise, a copy of which is filed before the Court and the same may be read as part and parcel of the record. The learned Addl. Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection to quash the calendar 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 calendar case can be quashed. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings initiated against respondents 1 to 3 herein-accused in C.C.No.36 of 2011 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, filed shall stand closed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 1st March, 2011 CBS HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1873 OF 2011 (Allowed) 1st March, 2011 CBS