HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.2693 OF 2011 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 4, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in C.C.No.364 of 2008 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, taken on file for the offences punishable under Sections 498-A, 506, 323 IPC r/w 34 IPC and Sections 3, 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that during pendency of the Criminal Petition, at the intervention of elders and well wishers, both the parties settled the matter out of Court and to that effect they filed a Memorandum of compromise/Family settlement dated 24.06.2008 before the Court. Therefore, he prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in the calendar case. The defacto complainant 1st respondent herein is present before this Court. She produced her identity and the same is verified by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. She 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. 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 continuation of the criminal proceedings against the petitioners would serve no purpose and 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 the petitioners herein in C.C.No.364 of 2008 on the file of the XIII Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed. The Memorandum of Compromise/Family settlement dated 24.06.2008 filed by the parties be made as part of this order. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, filed shall stand closed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 25th March, 2011 CBS HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.2693 OF 2011 (Allowed) 25th March, 2011 CBS