N. Lal v. The State Of Telangana

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN I.A.Nos.2 AND 3 of 2020 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.5312 OF 2020 COMMON ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner/accused in PRC.No.20 of 2017 on the file of XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Secunderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 498-A, 307 read with Section 34 of IPC, to quash the proceedings in the above said crime.

2. During the pendency of the present Criminal Petition, the parties have compromised the matter and, accordingly, respondent No.2-de facto complainant filed I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2020 to permit her to compound the offences and to record the compromise in PRC.No.20 of 2017.

3. Vide order dated 02.11.2020, this Court, after recording the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as respondent No.2, directed the parties to appear before the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court for their identification and also directed the Registrar (Judicial) to submit a report by 11.11.2020. In compliance with the said order, the Registrar (Judicial) has submitted his report dated 06.11.2020.

4. In the report dated 06.11.2020 of the Registrar (Judicial), it is stated that on oral examination, respondent

No.2 has stated that she had filed a complaint against the petitioner and that the same was registered as PRC.No.20 of 2017 on the file of XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Secunderabad, for the offence under Sections 420, 307, 498-A read with Section 34 IPC and that now she has approached this Court for recording the compromise. 5.

The parties herein have filed a joint memo of compromise dated 19.10.2020. The said joint memo of compromise dated 19.10.2020 and the report of the Registrar (Judicial) dated 06.11.2020 are placed on record. 6.

In view the said report and also in view of the compromise entered between the petitioner and respondent No.2, I.A. Nos.2 and 3 are allowed. Consequently, the Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings in PRC.No.20 of 2017 on the file of XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Secunderabad, are hereby quashed.

Miscellaneous Petitions, pending if any, shall stand closed. __________________ K. LAKSHMAN, J Date: 10.11.2020 TJMR