ORDER :

This Crl.M.C. has been preferred to quash Annexure-A1 Final Report in C.C.No.2929/2016 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-III, Attingal on the ground of settlement between the parties.

2. Altogether, there are four accused. The petitioners are the accused Nos.2 and 4. The 2nd respondent is the de facto complainant.

3. The offences alleged against the accused are under Sections 120B, 420 r/w 34 of the IPC.

4. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused made believe the de facto complainant that they were in possession of a memory card containing porn videos of his daughter and induced him to part with Rs.3,00,000/-on 14/7/2012 on the assurance that the said memory card would be handed over to him, but cheated the de facto complainant without handing over the memory card or returning the amount.

5. The respondent No.2 entered appearance through counsel. An affidavit sworn in by him is produced as Annexure-A2.

6. I have heard Sri.P.Anoop, the learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri.Chandra Babu, the learned counsel for respondent No.2 and Sri.M.P.Prasanth, the learned Public Prosecutor for the respondent No.1.

7. The averments in the petition as well as