ORDER :

On the oral request of learned counsel representing the petitioners, the father of the petitioner No.2 (victim/prosecutrix) is impleaded as petitioner No.3 in the array of the parties. Registry is directed to carry out necessary correction in the memo of the parties.

2. By way of instant petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioners for quashing of FIR No. FIR No. 127 of 2021, dated 29.08.2021 under Sections 376, 506 of IPC and Section 6 of POCSO Act, registered at police Station, Majra, District Sirmaur, H.P., as well as consequent proceedings, if any, pending adjudication in the competent court of law on account of subsequent development i.e. marriage interse petitioner No.1 and petitioner No.2 (hereinafter referred to as the victim/prosecutrix).

3. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that FIR sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings came to be lodged at the behest of petitioner No.2-victim/prosecutrix, who alleged that last year while she had gone to her maternal uncle’s house at Kot, Tehsil Chhachhrauli, she came into the contact of petitioner No.1. She alleged that pe