Nadish Veig and Another Vs State of Up and Another — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

Nadish Veig and Another Vs State of Up and Another — Dowry and Cruelty | Allahabad HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Quashing of the entire proceedings of Case No. 3997 of 2024, State of U.P. Vs. Nadish Veig, arising out of Case Crime No. 113 of 2023, under Sections 498A, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Mahila Thana, District Agra.

Issue for consideration

Whether the entire criminal proceedings in Case No. 3997 of 2024 (Case Crime No. 113 of 2023) under Sections 498A, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, arising out of a matrimonial dispute, should be quashed on the basis of the compromise arrived at between the parties.

Court's answer

The criminal proceedings were essentially an outcome of a matrimonial dispute; with the parties having settled, there is practically no chance of recording conviction even if the case went to trial, the entire exercise of trial would be an exercise in futility, and quashing the proceedings would be in the interest of justice.

Ratio / Principle

It would be unfair or contrary to the interest of justice to continue the criminal proceeding, and continuation despite the settlement and compromise between the victim and the wrongdoer would tantamount to abuse of process of law; to secure the ends of justice, the criminal case is appropriately put to an end.

Key takeaways

Since the parties do not want to pursue the case any further and the matter stands mutually settled by the compromise dated 14.06.2024, no useful purpose would be served in proceeding with the matter further.ratio¶13
In view of the well settled principles of law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in Parbatbhai Aahir Vs. State of Gujarat, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab and State of M.P. Vs. Laxmi Narayan, the proceedings of the aforesaid case are hereby quashed.ratio¶14

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Hon'ble Vikram D. Chauhan, J.), by order dated 21.5.2025 in Application U/S 482 No. 23651 of 2024 (Neutral Citation 2025:AHC:86163), allowed the applicants' petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. and quashed the entire proceedings of Case No. 3997 of 2024, State of U.P. Vs. Nadish Veig, arising out of Case Crime No. 113 of 2023 under Sections 498A, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act against applicant no. 1 and Sections 498A, 504 I.P.C. against applicant no. 2, Police Station Mahila Thana, District Agra. The Court found the proceedings to have essentially been an outcome of a matrimonial dispute; the parties had entered into a compromise on 14.06.2024, verified by the court concerned on 24.04.2025; opposite party no. 2 did not wish to proceed; and continuation of trial would be an exercise in futility and would tantamount to abuse of process of law despite the settlement and compromise between the victim and the wrongdoer. Relying on the well settled principles laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in Parbatbhai Aahir Vs. State of Gujarat (2017) 9 SCC 641, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303 and State of M.P. Vs. Laxmi Narayan (2019) 5 SCC 688, the Court held that putting the criminal case to an end was appropriate to secure the ends of justice, and quashed the proceedings.

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:86163

Court No. - 75

Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 23651 of 2024

Applicant :- Nadish Veig And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ashish Goyal Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Shubham Kumar

Hon'ble Vikram D. Chauhan,J.

Heard Sri Ashish Goyal, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Shubham Kumar, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 and learned A.G.A. for the State.

This application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed by applicants for quashing the entire proceedings of Case No. 3997 of 2024, State of U.P. Vs. Nadish Veig, arising out of Case Crime No. 113 of 2023, under Sections 498A, 504, 506 I.P.C. and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act against the applicant no. 1 and under Sections 498A, 504 I.P.C. against the applicant no. 2, Police Station Mahila Thana, District Agra on the basis of compromise arrived between the parties.

Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the compromise has already been entered between the parties on 14.06.2024 and the same has been verified by the court concerned on 24.04.2025, therefore, the present case be finally decided.

Learned counsel for opposite party no.2 has not disputed the facts as stated by learned counsel for the applicants. He further contended that opposite party no.2 does not want to proceed with the criminal case against the applicants and the same may be quashed.

Learned AGA does not dispute the fact that parties have entered into settlement which is duly verified by the court concerned. It is further submitted that he would have no objection in case criminal proceedings are put to an end. He further submits that in view of settlement there is virtually no chance of any conviction being recorded in the criminal proceedings.

Having examined the matter in its totality, this Court is of the view that the criminal proceedings in the present case had essentially been an outcome of a matrimonial dispute and there are no such over bearing circumstances for which the applicants ought to be prosecuted even after the parties has entered into a settlement. Needless to observe that with the present stand of the parties in terms of their settlement, there is practically no chance of recording conviction, even if the case under the F.I.R. in question is put to trial. In other words, entire exercise of trial would only be an exercise in futility. On the contrary, looking to the nature of dispute and the fact that the disputants have compromised and want to proceed peacefully ahead, it would be in the interest of justice that criminal proceedings in question are quashed.

It would be unfair or contrary to the interest of justice to continue with the criminal proceeding or continuation of the criminal proceeding would tantamount to abuse of process of law despite settlement and compromise between the victim and the wrongdoer and to secure the ends of justice, it is appropriate that the criminal case is put to an end.

In view of the fact that the parties do not want to pursue the case any further as stated by them and the fact that matter has been mutually settled between the parties in view of the compromise dated 14.06.2024, no useful purpose would be served in proceeding with the matter further.

Thus, in view of the well settled principles of law as laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in Parbatbhai Aahir Vs. State of Gujarat (2017) 9 SCC 641, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab (2012) 10 SCC 303 and State of M.P. Vs. Laxmi Narayan, (2019) 5 SCC 688 , the proceedings of the aforesaid case is hereby quashed.

The present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is, accordingly, allowed.

Order Date :- 21.5.2025

SK Srivastava

Digitally signed by :- SAILESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad