Ketan Singh @ and 3 Others Vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin… — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

Ketan Singh @ and 3 Others Vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin… — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Application disposed of finally rather than quashed outright: parties directed to appear before the concerned (trial) court and file the compromise within four weeks; trial court to verify the compromise, prepare a report, make the original compromise deed part of the record, and complete verification within two weeks of production of a copy of the order; certified copies of the report and compromise deed permitted; Office to provide the original compromise deed to the applicants' counsel; applicants left free to approach the Court again for quashing; and no coercive action against the applicant(s) for eight weeks.

Issue for consideration

Whether the entire proceedings arising out of Charge Sheet No. 1/2024 dated 10.02.2024 and the summoning order dated 01.03.2024 (Case Crime No.- 125 of 2023) are liable to be quashed in view of the parties having amicably settled their dispute outside the Court and entered into a compromise. +1 more

Court's answer

The application is disposed of finally with the direction that the parties to the proceedings in issue shall appear and file the compromise before the concerned court within four weeks from the date of the order.

Ratio / Principle

Whether the parties have in fact compromised the matter can best be ascertained by the trial court, as such compromise has to be duly verified in the presence of the parties concerned before the Court.

Key takeaways

The concerned court shall verify the compromise between the parties, prepare a report to that effect making the original compromise deed part of the record, and conclude the verification process within two weeks from the date of production of a copy of this order; certified copies of the report and compromise deed are to be made available to the parties.ratio¶22
It shall be open to the applicant(s) to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings (after the compromise is verified before the trial court).ratio¶24
For a period of eight weeks, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant(s) in the aforesaid case.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), Court No. 13 - Saurabh Lavania, J. Application U/S 482 No. - 10395 of 2025, decided December 9, 2025. Ketan Singh @ and 3 others sought quashing of the proceedings arising out of Charge Sheet No. 1/2024 dated 10.02.2024 and the summoning order dated 01.03.2024 passed by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (C.B.I./Ayodhya Prakran), Lucknow, in Case Crime No.- 125 of 2023 under Sections 498A, 323, 354, 506 I.P.C. and Sections 3/4 D.P. Act, Police Station- Chowk, District-Lucknow, asserting that the parties had amicably settled their dispute outside the Court and entered into a compromise. Holding that whether the parties had, in fact, compromised could best be ascertained by the trial court, since a compromise has to be duly verified in the presence of the parties concerned, the court disposed of the application with directions: the parties to appear and file the compromise before the concerned court within four weeks; the concerned court to verify the compromise, prepare a report, and make the original compromise deed part of the record; verification to conclude within two weeks of production of a copy of the order; certified copies of the report and compromise deed to be furnished; the applicants left open to approach the Court again for quashing; the Office to provide the original compromise deed to the applicants' counsel; and no coercive action against the applicant(s) for a period of eight weeks. Although the judgment invokes the law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court on settlement-based quashing, no specific precedent is identified or engaged with by name.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD

LUCKNOW

APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 10395 of 2025

Ketan Singh @ And 3 Others

.....Applicant(s)

Versus

State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Akhilash Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A.

Court No. - 13

HON'BLE SAURABH LAVANIA, J.

Sri Suresh Chandra Verma, Advocate, has put in appearance for the private opposite party No. 2 and has filed his Vakalatnama, which is taken on record.

Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

Instant application has been preferred by the applicant(s) for the following main relief(s):-

"WHEREFORE, it is most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to quash the entire proceedings arising out of impugned Charge sheet bearing No.1/2024, dated 10.02.2024 filed in Case Crime No.- 125 of 2023 Under Section-498A, 323, 354, 506, I.P.C. & Section 3/4 D.P. Act, Police Station- Chowk, District-Lucknow and summoning order dated 01.03.2024 passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (C.B.I./ Ayodhya Prakran), Lucknow, as contained in Annexure No. 1 to this Application and further proceedings arising out from the same."

It is stated that both the parties have amicably settled their dispute outside the Court and have entered into a compromise and a copy of compromise deed, duly signed by the parties, is annexed as Annexure No. 3 to the present application. As such, keeping in view the settlement arrived at between the parties and the law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in this regard, the proceedings impugned are liable to be quashed.

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.

Considering the aforesaid, this application is disposed of finally in following terms:-

(i) The parties to the proceedings in issue shall appear and file the compromise before the concerned court within four week's from today.

(ii) If the parties appear before the concerned court in terms of above, the concerned Court shall proceed to verify the compromise between the parties

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to the proceedings and prepare a report to the same effect and the original compromise deed be made part of record.

(iii) The concerned court shall conclude the process of verification of compromise within two week's from the date of production of copy of this order.

(iv) The concerned court shall permit the parties to the proceedings to obtain the certified copy of the report as well as compromise deed.

(v) It shall be open to the applicant(s) to approach this Court again for quashing of the proceedings.

(vi) Office is directed to provide original compromise, if any, to the counsel for the applicant(s), after retaining its photocopy on record. It is for the purposes for its verification by the concerned court.

(vii) For a period of eight weeks, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant(s) in the aforesaid case.

December 9, 2025 DiVYa

(Saurabh Lavania,J.)

Digitally signed by :- DIVYA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench