24.4.2026 BD CRR 968 of 2026 IA No. CRAN 1 of 2026 Ashoke Kumar Das Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Anr.

Mr. Soumyajit Das Mahapatra Ms. Madhurai Sinha Ms. Upasana Banerjee …for the Petitioner Mr. Soumya Basu Roychowdhury … for the O.P. no.2 Mr. Arijit Ganguly … for the State.

In this application the petitioner has prayed for quashing of the proceeding being GR Case No. 3972/2023 under sections 498A/325/328/307/406/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code read with sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, presently pending before learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barasat. After completion of investigation, police has submitted charge-sheet against the accused persons and the court below has taken cognizance of the offences.

Learned counsel for the petitioner and also the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party no. 2 submit that the disputes and differences have been settled amongst the parties and therefore the defacto- complainant does not want to proceed further with the impugned criminal proceeding. Therefore, both the petitioner/husband and the defacto complainant have prayed before this court for quashing of the aforesaid impugned proceeding.

Learned counsel for the