C528/1772/2025
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Uttarakhand High Court

C528/1772/2025 on 16 February, 2026

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                               C528 No.1772 of 2025
                               Hon'ble Alok Mahra, J.

Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sharma, Advocate for the applicants.

Mr. Vikas Uniyal, Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand.

Mr. Aakib Ahmed, Advocate for respondent no.2.

2. Present C-528 application is filed with the prayer to set-aside/quash the charge sheet dated 19.03.2024, summoning order dated 09.04.2024 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.242 of 2024, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun on the basis of compromise between the parties.

3. Compounding application (I.A. No.3 of 2026) is also filed in the matter wherein it is prayed to compound the offence between the parties.

4. Parties appeared before this Court, who are duly identified by their respective counsel. Parties have also filed their respective affidavits stating the facts of compromise between them.

5. It is jointly submitted by the parties that they have settled their scores.

6. Learned State Counsel vehemently opposed the compounding application.

7. Hon'ble Supreme Court, in a catena of its judgments, has observed that in cases where because of the compromise 2026:UHC:972

arrived at between the parties, possibility of conviction is remote and bleak, the High Court may quash the criminal proceedings as continuation of the same would cause great prejudice and injustice to the accused.

8. Following the aforesaid ratio, present compounding application is allowed. The offences between the parties are permitted to be compounded. As a result, entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.242 of 2024, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun, are hereby quashed.

9. C-528 application stands disposed of.

(Alok Mahra, J.) 16.02.2026 Arpan

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