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Court No. - 73
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 37952 of 2024
Applicant :- Prabhudas @ Prabhu And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ajay Kumar Pathak,Rahul Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Mrs. Manju Rani Chauhan,J.
Heard Mr. Rahul Pandey, learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State.
This application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed to quash the charge-sheet dated 16.07.2023, cognizance/ summoning order dated 19.03.2024 as well as entire proceedings of Case No.422 of 2024 (State Vs. Prabhudas and another), arising out of Case Crime No.59 of 2023, under Sections 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station- Iglas, DistrictAligarh, pending before the court of Judicial Magistrate, Iglas, Aligarh.
Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the dispute between the parties is a matrimonial dispute and in case, the matter is referred for mediation, the parties may get an opportunity to amicably settle their dispute. He, therefore, submits that in view of the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case, it will be in the interest of both the parties that the party may be referred for mediation to the Mediation Centre, High Court, Allahabad.
Learned A.G.A. has no objection to this proposition.
Accordingly, the matter is referred to Mediation & Conciliation Centre of this Court. The applicants are directed to deposit a sum of Rs. 20,000/- by way of Demand Draft / pay order in the name of Registrar General A/c, Allahabad High Court Mediation & Conciliation Centre within a period of four weeks from today. After deposit of the aforesaid amount, office shall send a notice to the opposite party no.2 calling upon her to appear in the mediation proceedings. The total amount of Rs. 20,000/- shall be payable to the opposite party no.2 on her appearance twice before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre. The Mediation Centre will submit its report in the matter within three months.
Issue notice to opposite party no.2 returnable at an early date.
List this case after three months alongwith the report of Mediation Centre.
Till the next date of listing, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicants in the aforesaid case.
If the amount, as directed above, is not deposited by the applicants within the aforesaid period, the stay order shall automatically come to an end and the office shall immediately list this case for further orders before the Court.
Order Date :- 11.11.2024 Abhishek Singh
Digitally signed by :- ABHISHEK SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the charge-sheet, cognizance order, and proceedings in the interim should be quashed?
Prabhudas @ Prabhu And Another
Manju Rani Chauhan
As recorded by the court registry
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