ORDER :

K Sreenivasa Reddy, J.

This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 Cr.P.C., has been filed by the petitioners/A-1 to A-9, seeking to quash the proceedings in SC No.37 of 2021 on the file of the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge for trial of cases under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Vijayawada, NTR district.

2. A charge sheet has been filed against the petitioners herein for the offences punishable under Section 324 read with 34 IPC and Sections 3(l)(r)(s) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

3. It is represented that both the parties have settled the dispute amicably out of the Court at the intervention of their elders and well wishers. In view of the settlement arrived between both the parties. they filed IA Nos.2 and 3 of 2024 seeking to permit them to compound the offences and to record the compromise.

4. Today, when the matter is taken up, petitioners and 2nd respondent herein are present before this Court. Learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for 2nd respondent have identified both the parties in the open Cour