2026:CGHC:8778-DB PADMAVATHI Date: 2026.02.23 NAFR

17:09:08 +0530 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRMP No. 1457 of 2024

1 - Ramavtar Saraf S/o Late Gulraj Saraf Aged About 81 Years

2 - Pushpa Saraf W/o Ramavtat Saraf Aged About 79 Years Both are R/o C-06 II Floor Ashoka Tower Beside Bti Ground Shankar Nagar Raipur District Raipur (C.G.)

... Petitioner(s)

versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Police Station SHO P.S. Civil/lines Raipur (C.G.)

2 - Anjay Shukla S/o Late Vijay Shankar Shukla Aged About 61 Years Pro. A.S.

Roadways R/o Civil Lines Near C.M. House Raipur (C.G.)

...Respondent(s)

(Cause-title taken from Case Information System)

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For Petitioners : Shri Alok Nigam, Advocate For Respondent/State : Shri Priyank Rathi, GA For Respondent-2 : Ms Priya Mishra, Advocate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal

Order on Board

Per R amesh Sinha, Chief Justice

19.02.2026 Heard Shri Alok Nigam, learned counsel for the petitioners. Also heard Shri Priyank Rathi, learned Govt. Advocate, appearing for the respondent/State and Ms. Priya Mishra, learned counsel for respondent-2.

1. Present petition has been filed by the petitioners with the following prayer:

“It is therefore most respectfully prayed that this Hon’ble Court may kindly be pleased to allow the petition and quash the impugned FIR No. 0273/2024 registered at P.S. Civil Lines Raipur C.G. (Annexure-P/1) for the offence punishable under Section 420, 467 of IPC in the interest of justice.”

2. Case of the prosecution in brief is that Complainant-Anjay Shukla, Proprietor of AS Roadways of Raipur filed a written complaint before the Police Station-Civil Lines, Raipur on the basis of which FIR was registered on 27.04.2024 against the present petitioners. It was alleged in the said FIR that the present petitioners, in connivance with the co- accused-Nitish Saraf, who is their grandson, have committed embezzlement and cheating to the tune of Rs.2.5 crores by means of fraud and forgery. Subsequently, respondent-2 has lodged the impugned FIR against the petitioners for the alleged offence under Sections 420 and 467 of the IPC, and criminal proceedings have been initiated against the petitioners.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that during pendency of the criminal case, respondent-2 Anjay Shukla along with his family members, and the co-accused Nitish Saraf along with his family members, wherein petitioners are included, entered into mutual compromise deed dated 26.11.2024, and both the parties agreed to one time settlement.

4. In terms of the said compromise deed, parties have settled the dispute between them in the following terms:

(a) The first party (respondent-2 and family members) and the second party (Petitioners and their family members) and their entire families have good family relations for many years.

(b) The compromise deed outlines the transfer of a 3BHK flat in Ashoka Tower, Shankar Nagar, Raipur to the respondent-2 in settlement of debt received by Nitish Saraf, Grandson of the present petitioners to the tune of approximately Rs.19,50,000/- from the family members of respondent-2, seeing the need for money, which he could not repay, and this compromise deed has been done between the parties.

(c) Compromise also mentions that the said flat is currently mortgaged with a bank, and the respondent-2 will pay the remaining loan amount of about 10,50,000/- to make the said property debt-free. Respondent-2 will also to pay the difference amount, if any, to make the above property debt-free, and the petitioners will return the same within five days.

(d) Compromise also includes the terms to withdraw an FIR- 2738 of 2024, registered by the respondent-2 against the petitioners under Sections 420 and 467 of the IPC at