HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Writ Petition Criminal No. 846 of 2025

06 August, 2025

Nikit Khatri --Petitioner

Versus

State Of Uttarakhand & others

--Respondents

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Presence:-

Mr. Lalit Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner.

Mr. B.C. Joshi, learned AGA for the State.

Mr. Piyush Tiwari, learned counsel for respondent no.3.

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Hon'ble Pankaj Purohit, J.

Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. By means of the present writ petition, petitioner has put to challenge the First Information Report No.85 of 2025 dated 07.07.2025, under Section 109 of BNS, 2023 registered at Police Station Kotwali Pithoragarh, District Pithoragarh on the ground of settlement and compromise entered into between the

parties.

3. Along with present criminal writ petition, a joint compounding application has also been filed by the parties, which is duly supported by separate affidavits of

the parties.

4. In the compounding application, it has been stated that the petitioners and respondent no.3 has amicably settled their dispute with the intervention of elder members of the community