Rajbabu Alias Deepak and 2 Others Vs State of U.P… — Cheating and Forgery | Allahabad HC (2026)

Rajbabu Alias Deepak and 2 Others Vs State of U.P… — Cheating and Forgery | Allahabad HC (2026)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Quashing of the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 (State Vs. Rajbabu @ Deepak and Others) arising out of Case Crime No. 72 of 2020 under Sections 420, 406, 504, 506 IPC, Police Station Civil Lines, District Rampur, together with the charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 and the cognizance/summoning order dated 07.08.2020.

Issue for consideration

Whether the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 arising out of Case Crime No. 72 of 2020 under Sections 420, 406, 504, 506 IPC, along with the charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 and the cognizance/summoning order dated 07.08.2020, is liable to be quashed in exercise of inherent powers under Section 528 BNSS in view of the compromise between the parties. +1 more

Court's answer

The application is allowed and the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 arising out of Case Crime No. 72 of 2020 under Sections 420, 406, 504, 506 IPC, the charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 and the cognizance/summoning order dated 07.08.2020 are quashed.

Ratio / Principle

Following the Apex Court decisions in Gian Singh, B.S. Joshi and Narinder Singh, inherent power can be exercised to do real and substantial justice and to speed up the process of ending criminal proceedings where a settlement has been arrived at between the parties.

Key takeaways

The dispute is essentially of a private nature with no wider social impact; since it has been mutually settled between the parties by way of compromise, no useful purpose would be served by proceeding with the matter further.ratio¶19

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Sanjiv Kumar, J.) allowed an application under Section 528 BNSS and quashed the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 (State Vs. Rajbabu @ Deepak and Others) arising out of Case Crime No. 72 of 2020 under Sections 420, 406, 504, 506 IPC, P.S. Civil Lines, District Rampur, along with the charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 and the cognizance/summoning order dated 07.08.2020. Relying on Gian Singh v. State of Punjab (2012 AIR SCW 5333), B.S. Joshi v. State of Haryana ((2003) 3 SCC 675) and Narinder Singh v. State of Punjab ((2014) 6 SCC 466), the Court held that inherent power can be exercised to do real and substantial justice and to end criminal proceedings upon settlement; the dispute was found essentially private with no wider social impact, and the compromise stood verified by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur (report dated 16.04.2026) pursuant to this Court's order dated 27.06.2025.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD

APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 22519 of 2025

Rajbabu Alias Deepak And 2 Others

.....Applicant(s)

	Versus
State of U.P. and Another		....	.Opposite Party(s)
Counsel for Applicant(s) Counsel for Opposite Party(s)	: Abrar Ahmad Siddiqui, : Nandini Pandey, Sharadey Mishra, G.A.	Manish Satya	Kumar Prakash,

Court No. - 83

HON'BLE SANJIV KUMAR, J.

Heard Shri Manish Kumar, learned Counsel for the applicants, Shri Satya Prakash, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 and Shri Om Prakash Mishra, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.

In compliance of order dated 27.06.2025 of this Court, compliance report of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur dated 16.04.2026 has been received. The above report shows that both the parties had appeared before the learned trial court and had verified the compromise. The verified compromise deed and verification report is also annexed with the report.

This application under Section 528 of BNSS has been filed for quashing the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 (State Vs. Rajbabu @ Deepak and Others) arising out of Case Crime No.72 of 2020, under Sections- 420, 406, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station- Civil Lines, DistrictRampur, and charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 as well as cognizance/ summoning order dated 07.08.2020, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur.

It is submitted on behalf of learned counsel for the parties that both the parties had re-conciled their differences on their own freewill and wish without any pressure and now living peacefully. The verified compromise deed and verification report of the learned trial court is being filed alongwith the verification report.

Learned counsel for the applicant as well as opposite party No.2 jointly submitted that vide order dated 27.06.2025, a direction was given to the trial court to verify the factum of compromise executed by the parties. In pursuance of the aforesaid order, learned trial court had verified the contents

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of compromise.

Learned counsel for the applicant and learned counsel for opposite party no. 2 jointly submitted that the parties have entered into compromise, which has been duly verified by the parties before the concerned trial court court vide verification report dated 16.04.2026.

Learned A.G.A. has fairly conceded that compromise has been effected between the parties and the same has duly been verified by the trial court.

Hon'ble Apex Court in catena of decisions has held that inherent power can be used to do real and substantial justice as has been held in Gian Singh Vs State of Punjab, 2012 AIR SCW 5333, B.S. Joshi and others Vs State of Haryana, (2003) 3 SCC 675 and Narinder Singh Vs State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466 . Hence, inherent power can be exercised to speed up the process of ending the criminal proceedings where the settlement is arrived at between the parties.

In view of the aforesaid facts and considering that the parties do not wish to pursue the case any further, the dispute is essentially of a private nature and has no wider social impact. Since it has been mutually settled between the parties by way of a compromise, no useful purpose would be served by proceeding with the matter further.

For the discussions made above, the present application is allowed and the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 2009 of 2020 (State Vs. Rajbabu @ Deepak and Others) arising out of Case Crime No.72 of 2020, under Sections- 420, 406, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station- Civil Lines, District- Rampur, and charge-sheet dated 15.07.2020 as well as cognizance/ summoning order dated 07.08.2020, are hereby quashed.

April 24, 2026 AdityaG

(Sanjiv Kumar,J.)

Digitally signed by :- ADITYA GAUTAM High Court of Judicature at Allahabad