$~80 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CRL.M.C. 8952/2025 AJAY KUMAR AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Onkar Sharma and Mr. Aditya Sharma, Advocates along with petitioners-in-person.

versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP for the State.

Respondent no.2-in-person.

CORAM:

HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

O R D E R

% 15.12.2025 CRL.M.A. 37392/2025 (exemption)

1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. Application stands disposed of.

CRL.M.C. 8952/2025

3. By way of the present petition, the petitioners seek quashing of FIR bearing no. 582/2021, registered at Police Station Baba Haridas Nagar, Delhi for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 363/366/376/34 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereafter ‘IPC’) and Section 6/17 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereafter ‘POCSO Act’).

4. Issue notice. Ms. Priyanka Dalal, the learned APP accepts notice on behalf of the State.

5. The petitioners and respondent no. 2 are present before this Court. They have been identified by their counsels and concerned Investigating Officer (IO) from Police Station Baba Haridas Nagar, Delhi.

6. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case are that the FIR was registered against the petitioners on the allegations made by the father of the minor respondent no. 2, alleging that the petitioner had kidnapped his minor daughter i.e., the respondent no. 2. During the pendency of the trial, with the intervention of friends and family members, both the parties have now amicably settled their disputes vide Settlement Agreement dated 24.11.2025, entered between them. It is stated that petitioner no. 1 and respondent no. 2 are married now.

7. On a query made by this Court, respondent no. 2, who has been identified by the concerned IO, has categorically stated that she has entered into compromise out of her own free will and without any pressure, coercion or threat. It is also stated by respondent no. 2 that the entire dispute has been amicably settled between the parties, therefore, she has no objection, if the present FIR is quashed.

8. In view of the above fact that the parties have amicably resolved their differences out of their own free will, without any coercion, no useful purpose will be served by continuing the proceedings, rather the same would create further acrimony between them. It would thus be in interest of justice to quash the abovementioned FIR and the proceedings pursuant thereto.

There is no legal impediment in quashing the FIR in question.

9. Accordingly, FIR bearing no. 582/2021, registered at Police Station Baba Haridas Nagar, Delhi for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 363/366/376/34 of IPC and Section 6/17 of POCSO Act and all consequential proceedings emanating therefrom are quashed.

10. In view of the above, the present petition stands disposed of.

11. The order be uploaded on the website forthwith.

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J DECEMBER 15, 2025/zp/GJ