Vidya Bhushan Chopra @ V B Chopra v. State Of NCT Of Delhi & ANR

45# $~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 2328/2016 VIDYA BHUSHAN CHOPRA @ V B CHOPRA..... Petitioner Represented by:

Mr. Anuj Malhotra, Advocate with petitioner in person.

versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR ..... Respondents Represented by:

Ms. Richa Kapoor, Additional Standing Counsel for the State with WSI Sushila, PS Patel Nagar.

Mr. A.K.Trivedi, Advocate for respondent No.2 with respondent No.2 in person.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MUKTA GUPTA

O R D E R

% 08.08.2016 Crl. M.A. No. 12111/2016 (Exemption) Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

W.P.(CRL) 2328/2016 By the present petition the petitioner seeks quashing of FIR No. 205/2015 under Sections 354/354C IPC registered at PS Patel Nagar, Delhi on the complaint of Respondent No.2 on the ground that the parties have settled the matter.

Learned Additional Standing Counsel for the State on instructions from the Investigating Officer states that besides the petitioner there is no other accused and besides the respondent No.2 there is no other complainant or victim in the present FIR.

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The complainant/Respondent No. 2 Ms. Sakshi Gautam who is present in Court and is identified by the Investigating Officer states that she has settled the matter with the petitioner, who is the father of her husband. She further states that the present FIR was registered due to matrimonial difference between the parties and in terms of the settlement between the parties, she does not want to pursue the abovementioned FIR and the proceedings pursuant thereto.

Petitioner, who is also present in Court and is identified by the learned counsel states that he will abide by the terms of settlement. In view of the fact that the parties have amicably resolved their differences of their own free will, volition and without any coercion and no useful purpose will be served in continuance of the proceedings, rather the same would create further acrimony between them, it would be in the interest of justice to quash the abovementioned FIR and the proceedings pursuant thereto. There is no legal impediment in quashing the FIR in question. Consequently, FIR No. 205/2015 under Sections 354/354C IPC registered at PS Patel Nagar, Delhi and proceedings pursuant thereto are hereby quashed, subject to the petitioners depositing a sum of `20,000/- with the Bar Council of Delhi Indigent and Disabled Lawyers' Account within two weeks. Parties have signed this order sheet in acknowledgment of their statements made before this Court.

The petition is disposed of. Order dasti.

MUKTA GUPTA, J.

AUGUST 08, 2016 'vn'

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