JUDGMENT

Dinesh Mehta, J. - By way of this criminal misc. petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the accused-petitioner has approached this Court with a prayer to quash the FIR No. 156/2022 registered at Police Station Sardarpura, Jodhpur seeking petitioners' prosecution for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323 & 308 of IPC and under Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1) (s), 3(2)(va) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that during pendency of the investigation, the petitioner has entered into a compromise with the complainant and the written compromise has been placed before the Investigating Officer, pursuant to direction given by this Court on 01.09.2022, who has verified the same.

3. Learned Public Prosecutor submits that since the FIR has been registered under the provisions of SC/ST Act, the same cannot be quashed on the basis of compromise. On the basis of factual report dated 20.10.2022, he, however, accepts the factum of compromise having been entered into without coercion and duress.

4. In order to support his contention that FIR/proceedings under the provisions of Sche