ORDER :

ANIL KUMAR UPMAN, J.

1. Parties are present in person and they have duly been identified by their respective counsel.

2. Instant criminal misc. petition under Section 528 of the BNSS has been filed on behalf of the accused-petitioners for quashing the impugned FIR No.261/2025 registered at Police Station Jhotwara, District Jaipur (West) for offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 351(2) & 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, (in short ‘BNS’) 2023 and Sections 3(1)(r) & 3(1) (s) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (Amendment 2015).

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that parties have settled their dispute amicably and they have entered into compromise. It is submitted that due to compromise, further proceedings in the aforesaid FIR are fruitless and continuation thereof would be a futile exercise and a waste of precious judicial time and resources. The written compromise has been annexed with this petition.

4. In order to support his contention that FIR/proceedings under the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘SC/ST Act’) can be quashed, learned counsel for the pe