Uttarakhand High Court
C528/1332/2026 of SACHIN VERMA Vs STATE OF UTTARAKHAND on 17 June 2026
SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS C528/1332/2026 Hon'ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Kirti Sharan Agarwal, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma,
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1. Mr. Kirti Sharan Agarwal, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned A.G.A. for the State.
3. Mr. Asmit Chandola, learned counsel for the complainant.
4. The instant petition under Section 528 of BNSS 2023 has been preferred by the applicant Sachin Verma along with compounding application for quashing of the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 3862 of 2025, State vs. Sachin Verma, arising out of FIR No. 316 of 2024, whereby he has been summoned to face the trial for the offences punishable under Sections 498A, 323, 504 IPC read with Section 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act pending in the court of 1st Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun.
5. Compounding application is supported with the affidavit of the applicant and the respondent/complainant. The applicant and the respondent are present in Court and are identified by their respective counsel.
6. It is contended in the compounding application that both the parties have now resolved their disputes and got divorce by Family Court, Dehradun by judgment and decree dated 28.04.2024 passed in O.S. No. 43 of 2026. The divorce decree is also placed on record.
7. It is submitted that since now the parties have settled their dispute and got divorce by mutual consent, therefore, the instant proceeding be closed. It is also pointed out that from their marriage there is one child who is living with the applicant (father), however, the Family Court give the visitation right to the respondent/wife to meet her child.
8. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned A.G.A. for the State submits that since the dispute appears to be matrimonial one and the parties have now resolved their dispute and got divorce by mutual consent, therefore, initiation of proceeding is now a futile exercise.
9. In such view of the matter when the parties have settled their dispute and got divorce by mutual consent and furthermore visitation rights have been given to the respondent/wife to meet her child, this Court is of the view that continuation of proceeding is completely a futile exercise.
10. Accordingly, the compounding application as well as the instant C528 application are allowed. The entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 3862 of 2025, State vs. Sachin Verma, pending in the court of 1st Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun is hereby quashed.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.)
17.06.2026 Parul