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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY
Najamul Haque Mondal @ Najmil Haque Mandal @ Najmul Haque Mandal, son of Mahasin Mondal @ Mohsin Mandal – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. maintenance of fir in relation to a civil dispute (Para 2) |
| 2. settlement of disputes outside the court (Para 3 , 4) |
| 3. legal reasoning on quashing fir under section 482 crpc (Para 5 , 6) |
| 4. decision to quash fir and dispose of the petition (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 10) |
JUDGMENT :
ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY, J.
1. Heard the parties.
2. This criminal miscellaneous petition has been filed invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 528 of B.N.S.S., 2023 with the prayer to quash the FIR being Chutia P.S. Case No.212 of 2020 registered for the offence punishable under Section 406 , 420, 34 of Indian Penal Code in which investigation is still going on and charge sheet has not yet been submitted.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the opposite party no.2 jointly drawing attention of this Court to the Interlocutory Application No.1917 of 2026 which is supported by separate affidavits of the pairvikar of the petitioner and the informant-opposite party no. 2 submits that therein it has categorically been mentioned that the parties have settled their dispute outside the Court amicably by mutual consent without any force or coercion hence, nothing remains
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