O R D E R

The present criminal original petition is filed to call for records in Spl.S.C. No. 182 of 2022 on the file of Special Court for Exclusive Trial of Cases under POCSO Act, Chennai and accept the compromise memo and quash the same.

2. The petitioner/accused in Spl.S.C. No. 182 of 2022 is facing trial for the offences under Sections 366 IPC, 67(B) of IT Act and Sections 7 r/w 8 & 11(iv) r/w 12 of POCSO Act, 2012.

3. The case of the prosecution is that the 2nd respondent/ de facto complainant and his wife are employees in SBI Life Insurance on contract basis and they have two daughters, namely, the 3rd respondent herein/victim girl, studying in X standard in Nirmal Matriculation School, Ayanavaram and another studying in V standard in the very same school. The de facto complainant found that her elder daughter was often glued to her mobile phone and also found to be regularly chatting over phone. The de facto complainan\father of the victim girl had objected to the same. On 06.04.2022, he saw his daughter’s photographs along with another person in instagram and when he questioned, he came to know that in November, 2021, the 3rd respondent came in contact with the petitioner;