JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

By way of these petitions filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C, prayer has been made by the petitioners-accused for quashing of FIR No. 23 of 2021, dated 04.08.2021, registered at Women Police Station, Hamirpur, District Hamirpur, H.P. under Sections 498-A of Indian Penal Code alongwith consequential proceedings pending in the competent court of law, on the basis of compromise arrived inter se parties.

2. Precisely the case of the petitioners, as emerge from the record are that the FIR sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings came to be lodged at the behest of respondent No.2 (hereinafter, ‘complainant’), who alleged that her marriage was solemnized with petitioner No.1-Ramit Anand Sharma on 04.02.2014, but immediately after marriage, her husband alongwith other family members started harassing her on account of bringing less dowry. Complainant further alleged that her husband alongwith other family members not only abused her but also gave beatings. Since petitioner No.1 and respondent No.2 were unable to live together for long, respondent No.2 was compelled to live separately with her parents. In the aforesaid background, FIR sought to be quashed came