Smt. Gulafsha Jaha @ Gulafsha Bano and 3 Others vs State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. and 4 Others

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW

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APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 1695 of 2026

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Smt. Gulafsha Jaha @ Gulafsha Bano And 3 Others

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.....Applicant(s)

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Versus

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State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. And 4 Others .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Kajol Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Dhananjai Kumar Tripathi

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Court No. - 16

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HON'BLE SHREE PRAKASH SINGH, J.

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Sri Dhananjai Kumar Tripathi, Advocate, has put in appearance by way of filing vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party nos. 2 to 5 and the same is taken on record.

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Heard learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Dhananjai Kumar Tripathi, learned counsel for opposite party nos. 2 to 5, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

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The instant application has been filed for quashing the entire criminal proceeding Initiated against the Petitioners in pursuance of the impugned charge sheet dated 23.07.2025 arising out Case Crime No.212/2025 Under Section- 191(2), 115(2), 352, 351(3), 333 BNS, related to Police Station- Kotwali Rudauli, District-Ayodhya and cognizance/summoning order dated 20.01.2026 passed by Chief judicial Magistrate, Ayodhya in case No.141/2026 (State versus Mohd. Aftab and others), in the interest of Justice.

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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 under some misunderstanding, the instant F.I.R. has been lodged against the applicants and thereafter, the parties have amicably settled their dispute. The compromise deed has been reduced in writing on 04.04.2026 which has been annexed as annexure no. 6 to the

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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.

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On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for the opposite parties 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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For a period of three months, the proceedings initiated in pursuance of the Case Crime No.212/2025 Under Section- 191(2), 115(2), 352, 351(3), 333 BNS, related to Police Station- Kotwali Rudauli, DistrictAyodhya shall remain stayed so far as applicants are concerned.

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The trial Court is directed to examine the fact that whether all the parties against whom the chargesheet was filed, the party in the

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compromise and in this respect, it shall also sent a report along with the verification order.

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Office is directed to return the original compromise deed to the learned counsel for the applicants, if any, after taking the photocopy of the same.

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(Shree Prakash Singh,J.)

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April 29, 2026

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Anurag

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

Smt. Gulafsha Jaha @ Gulafsha Bano and 3 Others v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. and 4 Others

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