IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 21ST DAY OF JANUARY, 2019 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JOHN MICHAEL CUNHA CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 4184/2014 BETWEEN:
1. MRS. RANJEET GREWAL AGED ABOUT 68 YEARS MANAGING DIRECTOR M/S INDUS FLORABASE LIMITED R/AT A-302, PAVANI PARK WEST INNER CIRCLE BANGALORE-560066 2. MR. S C TRIPATHI AGED ABOUT 65 YEARS DIRECTOR M/S INDUS FLORABASE LIMITED A PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY REGISTERED UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT 1956 PRESENTLY RESIDING AT NO. 07 OPP. HAL EAST PRIMARY GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL MARATHAHALLI POST BANGALORE-560037 3. MR. MANDEEP SINGH GREWAL AGED ABOUT 44 YEARS S/O MRS RANJEET GREWAL PERMANENTLY RESIDING AT 655 GURDEV NAGAR PAKHOWAL ROAD, LUDHIANA PUNJAB-141001 NOW AT A-302, PAVANI PARK WEST INNER CIRCLE BANGALORE-560066 (BY SRI S. G. BHAGVAN, ADV.) AND 1. STATE BY WHITE FIELD POLICE STATION BANGALORE-560066 2. MR BHARATH GAUTHAM S/O S GAUTHAM MAJOR IN AGE RESIDING AT NO. 90/A DIAGONAL ROAD, V V PURAM BANGALORE-4 ... PETITIONERS ... RESPONDENTS (BY SRI I.S.PRAMOD CHANDRA, SPP-II FOR R1 SRI S. PRADEEP, ADV. FOR R2) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S.482 OF CR.P.C PRAYING TO QUASH THE ENTIRE PROCEEDINGS IN C.C.NO.2676/14 ON THE FILE OF THE ADDL.C.J.M., BANGALORE RURAL DIST., BANGALORE AND DISMISS THE COMPLAINT THIS PETITION COMING ON FOR ADMISSION THIS DAY, THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING:
O R D E R Petitioner No.1 – Smt. Ranjeet Grewal, Petitioner No.2 – Sri S.C.Tripathi, Petitioner No.3 – Sri Mandeep Singh Grewal and their counsel – Sri S. G. Bhagwan and respondent No.2 – Sri Bharath Gautham and his counsel – Sri S. Pradeep are present. On behalf of respondent No.1, learned SPP-II is present.
2. Petitioners and respondent No.2 have presented a compromise petition under Sections 320(1) and 320(2) read with Section 482 of Cr.P.C. seeking leave of this Court to permit the parties to compound the offence under section 420 of IPC and the other offences alleged against the petitioners. The application is signed by petitioners 1, 2, 3 and respondent No.2 and their respective counsels. The parties are identified by the counsels.
3. The parties submit that they have entered into the aforesaid settlement freely and voluntarily without any force and coercion and in terms of the said compromise, respondent No.2 submits that he has withdrawn all the allegations made against the petitioners and seeks to quash the proceedings initiated against the petitioners for the offence punishable under Sections 120-B, 417, 420, 506 read with Section 34 of IPC.
4. In view of the above compromise petition and the submissions made by the parties, the parties are permitted to compound the above offence.
Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. The proceedings pending against the petitioners in C.C.No.2676/2014 on the file of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Bangalore Rural District, are quashed.
Sd/- JUDGE VP