power under Section 482 Cr.PC has no limits. However, the High Court will exercise it sparingly and with utmost care and caution. The Court is a vital and an extra-ordinary effective instrument to maintain and control social order. The Courts play role of paramount importance in achieving peace, harmony and everlasting congeniality in society and resolution of a dispute by way of a compromise between two warring groups, therefore, should attract the immediate and prompt attention of a Court which should endeavour to give full effect to the same, unless such compromise is abhorrent to lawful composition of the society or would promote savagery if the statement is fair being free from under pressure. Meaning thereby, the High Court has unlimited power to quash the criminal proceedings, relatable to such disputes, on the basis of lawful settlement within the framework and restriction described by the Hon'ble Supreme Court. The ratio of the law laid down in the aforesaid judgments “mutatis mutandis” is fully attracted to the facts of the present case and is the complete answer to the problem in hand. 14. As is evident from the record that, in both the cross-cases, the parties have amicably settled their disputes with the intervention of respectable persons and village Panchayat, with their own sweet will and without any kind of pressure, vide settlement/agreement(Annexure P-2) and affidavits(Annexures P-3 and P-4) in both the cases. Now no dispute or difference is left between them. Both the parties belong to the same village. They have decided to withdraw their respective cases registered against each other. They want to live peacefully in future. The complainants have no objection if both the criminal cross-cases registered against each other are quashed. The factum and genuineness of the compromise between the parties is also reiterated by the Magistrate in his indicated reports. Thus, it would be seen that since, the compromise is in the welfare and interest of the parties, so, there is no impediment in translating their wishes into reality and to quash the criminal prosecution to set the matter at rest, to enable them to live in
