SATYEN VAIDYA
Naveen Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of H. P. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Satyen Vaidya, J.
Heard.
2. By way of instant petition, a prayer has been made to quash FIR No.26/2020, dated 20.09.2020, registered at Women Police Station, Dharamshala, District Kangra, H.P. under Sections 376, ,384 and 506 of IPC and consequent criminal proceedings i.e. case No. 192/2020, titled State of H.P. Vs. Naveen Kumar and another, pending before learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Dharamshala, District Kangra, H.P.
3. It is contended on behalf of the petitioners that respondent No.2 has compromised and settled all her disputes with the petitioners and they have entered into a written compromise placed on record as Annexure P-3. On the basis of such settlement, the above noted FIR as also the consequential criminal proceedings arising therefrom have been sought to be quashed.
4. Respondent No.2 had implicated the petitioners on the allegations that she had developed intimate relationship with petitioner No.1 in the year 2014 and during this period financial transactions took place between them. This relationship continued till 2020 whereafter both started levelling allegations and counter-allegations against each other. The enmity got intense between the two and
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