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Pramod Kumar Srivastava And 3 Others vs State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home ...

Allahabad High Court7 May 2026

Ratio decidendi

The rule this decision rests on

Where parties to criminal proceedings claim to have executed a compromise deed, the trial court must verify such compromise by issuing notices to all signatories requiring their personal presence, and only after such verification may the court prepare a report and make the compromise part of the record. In proceedings under sections 323, 324, 504, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code involving allegations of voluntarily causing hurt, grievous hurt, and criminal intimidation, a High Court may grant a stay of proceedings for a limited period to permit the parties to file a verified compromise before the trial court, following which the applicants may seek quashing of the proceedings.

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Judgment

As delivered

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD, LUCKNOW BENCHNeutral Citation No. - 2026:AHC-LKO:32994HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABADLUCKNOWAPPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 3831 of 2026Pramod Kumar Srivastava And 3 Others.....Applicant(s)Versus

State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Lko. And 2 Others

.....Opposite Party(s)

Counsel for Applicant(s)

:

Vivek Kumar Singh, Priya Singh

Counsel for Opposite Party(s)

:

G.A.

Court No. - 16

HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J.

Mr. Sunil Kumar,Advocate, has put in appearance by way of filing Vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party no. 2 and the same is taken on record.

Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Mr. Sunil Kumar, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

The instant application has been filed with the prayer to quash the entire proceeding of Case no. 53107/2024 as well as impugned summoning order dated 03.12.2024 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, District- Hardoi, in Case no. 53107/2024, Crime No. 485/2022, under sections 34, 323, 504, 506,324 of I.P.C.relating to Police Station- Kotwali City, District-Hardoi alongwith chargesheet dated 14.07.2022.

Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the instant case. He next added that due to some misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably compromised their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 16-03-2026, which has been annexed as annexure no. 5 to the instant application. He next added that now there is no grievance in between the parties with each other and the criminal proceedings against the applicants are the futile exercise as there is no fate of trial and that is amount to harassment of the applicants and thus, the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be quashed.

On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite party no. 2 has supported the version of the learned counsel for the applicants and submits that the parties have settled their dispute amicably through a compromise deed and there is no further grievance of the opposite parties against the present applicants and the criminal proceedings against the applicants may be dropped.

Learned A.G.A. appearing for the State has no objection to the contentions aforesaid.

Now whether the parties have, in fact, compromised the matter or not, can best be ascertained by the trial court as such compromise has to be duly verified in presence of the parties concerned before the Court.

Accordingly, this application is disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that if any such compromise is filed before it, it shall issue notices to all the signatories to the compromise requiring their personal presence and, thereafter, proceed to verify the compromise. If the aforesaid compromise is verified, a report to that effect shall be prepared by the court and the compromise will be made part of the record.

The court in that scenario will allow the parties to obtain certified copy of the report as well as compromise and it will be open to the applicants to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings.

For a period of three months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of Case no. 53107/2024 as well as impugned summoning order dated 03.12.2024 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, District- Hardoi, in Case no. 53107/2024, Crime No. 485/2022, under sections 34, 323, 504, 506,324 of I.P.C.relating to Police Station- Kotwali City, District-Hardoi alongwith chargesheet dated 14.07.2022. shall remain stayed so far as present applicants are concerned.

The trial court is further directed for ensuring the fact that all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed are present before the trial court and a report with respect to this effect shall also be sent alongwith verification order.

Office is directed to return the copy of original compromise deed to learned counsel for the applicants within a week.

(Shree Prakash Singh,J.)

May 7, 2026

AKS

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