JUDGMENT :

Ranjan Sharma, J.

Petitioner, namely Aryan, has come up in the instant petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure [hereinafter referred to as ‘Cr.P.C.’] seeking quashing of FIR No.85 of 2023, dated 10.11.2023 for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 376 of the Indian Penal Code [hereinafter referred to as ‘IPC’] and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences [hereinafter referred to as ‘POCSO’] Act, registered at Police Station Kotkhai, District Shimla [H.P.] as well as consequent proceedings pending before the learned Court below.

2. Quashing of FIR and criminal-judicial proceedings arising therefrom, has been prayed for, on the ground, that due to the intervention of the family members of petitioner as well as the respondent No.2-Victim [‘X’], the matter has been amicably settled. It is averred that the petitioner has been falsely roped in, at the instance of others who were inimical against the petitioner and the respondent No.2-Victim [‘X’], who have solemnized their marriage even prior to the registration of FIR dated 10.11.2023. It is further averred that the petitioner and the respondent No.2-Victim [‘X’] have no gr