JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

By way of present petition filed under S.482 CrPC, prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No. 36, dated 31.3.2021 under Ss. 376 IPC and S.6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act registered at Police Station East, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh alongwith consequential proceedings pending in the competent Court of law, on the basis of compromise arrived inter se parties.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record, are that respondent No.2/ victim-prosecutrix lodged a complaint at Police Station East, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, alleging therein that the petitioner namely Karan was known to her since her childhood and since then they have been meeting and talking to each other frequently. She alleged that last year when parents of petitioner Karan had gone to Nepal, he took her to his room and sexually assaulted her against her wishes. She alleged that in October, 2020, she became pregnant and asked petitioner Karan to solemnize marriage with her, but he refused. In the aforesaid FIR, sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings came to be lodged against the petitioner.

3. Since, after lodging of FIR,