HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 1415 OF 2010. DATED 15TH JULY, 2010. BETWEEN Nakirikanti Mohan Rao ….Petitioners and Nalluri Venkateswara Rao and anr. …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 1415 OF 2010. ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. is ﬁled to quash the proceedings in Cr.No. 165 of 2008 of Nagarampalem Police Station, Guntur District. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that the second respondent-defacto complainant ﬁled an aﬃdavit before this Court stating that he is not interested to puruse the matter any further inasmuch as the matter is settled out of Court. The said affidavit runs as follows: “ I submit that I am the ﬁrst respondent in the above Crl.P.No. 1415 of 2010 and I am well acquainted with the facts of the case. I submit that I ﬁled a private complaint against the petitioner on the ﬁle of Special Mobile Magistrate, Guntur alleging offences under Sections 420 and 468 IPC. I submit that the petitioner is working as District ﬁre Oﬃcer, Guntur and whereas I am working as Station Fire Officer. In the Month of January, 2006, I attended the duty called ‘Kalachakra 2006” at Amaravathi. I am entitled to T.A. & D.A. for the said programme. It is alleged by me in the complaint that the petitioner withdrew the amount of Rs.4070/-. The learned Magistrate referred the complaint to the police under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. on the basis of which the police registered a case in Cr.No. 165 of 2008 of Nagarampalem P.S. under Sections 420 and 468 IPC. After completion of investigation police have ﬁled charge sheet and the same is numbered as C.C.No. 74 of 2010 on the ﬁle of the Court of the Judicial First Class Magistrate cum Special Mobile Court, Guntur. I submit that now at the instance of the well wishers the matter has been comprised between us and I have no grievance against the petitioner/Accused. In such circumstances, I am not interested in prosecuting him. In such circumstances, I pray that this Honourable Court may be pleased to allow the above Criminal Petition No. 1415 of 2010 and quash the proceedings against the petitioner.” Today when the matter is posted for hearing, the learned Counsel appearing on either side submitted that having the ﬁrst petitioner and the ﬁrst respondent-defacto-complainant settled the dispute amicably out of Court prayed to quash the said proceedings pending before the Police Station. The learned Public Prosecutor submitted that there is no objection for quashing the proceedings in view of the amicable settlement arrived at between the parties. In view of the settlement arrived at between the parties, 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 Cr.No. 165 of 2008 of Nagarampalem Police Station, Guntur District are hereby quashed. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 15T H JULY, 2010. Msnr.