This Criminal Revision is preferred against two concurrent judgments of Courts below convicting petitioners for offences under Section 498.A IPC and Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act and sentencing them to 6 months R.I and a fine of Rs.1000/- each i/d to 3 months S.I for offence under Section 498.A IPC and 6 months R.I and a fine of Rs.1000/- each i/d 3 months S.I for offence under Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
2. Heard learned counsel for petitioner, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for first respondent and learned counsel for second respondent.
3. Learned counsel for petitioners submitted that the matter stands compromised between parties and first petitioner agreed to pay a sum of Rs.3,50,000/- (Three lakh fifty thousand only) to the defacto complainant towards full and final settlement. He further submitted that the said amount has been already paid by first petitioner to defacto complainant. Both first petitioner and defacto complainant already filed their mutual divorce petition before Family Court, Chennai. Hence, defacto complainant also agreed to withdraw this Criminal Revision Petition.
4. Learned counsel for second respondent also affirms the submission of learned counsel for petitioner viz., that the matter stands settled between defacto complainant and petitioner.
5. In view of the Joint Memo of Compromise, dated 31.07.2017, signed by both first petitioner and defacto complainant as also their respective counsels, this Court is inclined to allow this Criminal Revision Petition following the dictum of the Supreme Court in B.S.Joshi and others Vs. State of Haryana and another (AIR 2003 SCC 1386).
6. Accordingly, the Criminal Revision Case shall stand allowed. Consequently, petitioners/accused 1, 2, 3 shall stand acquitted of charges against them in C.C.No.12853/2004 on the file of the learned Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Chennai. Joint Memo of Compromise dated 31.07.2017 shall form part of the records.