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HIGH COURT OF DELHI
Date of Decision: 21st July, 2026
MUKUL KUMAR AND ANR .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Brijballabh Tiwari and Mr. Manoj Kumar, Advs. for along with etitioners through VC.
Through: Mr. Anand V Khatri, ASC (Crl.) for State with ASI Balbir Singh, PS-
Adarsh Nagar.
Mr. Harsh Goel, Advocate for R-2 with R-2 (through V.C.)
JUDGMENT
1. Petitioners herein seek quashing of FIR No. 591/2025 dated 25.07.2025, registered at Police Station Adarsh Nagar, Delhi, for commission of offences under Sections 498A/406/34 IPC, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties.
2. The marriage between complainant (respondent No.2 herein) and petitioner No.1 was solemnized on 18.04.2024, as per Hindu rites and customs. No child is born from the abovesaid wedlock.
3. However, on account of temperamental differences, the parties started residing separately and when a complaint was lodged by respondent No.2, it W.P.(CRL) 2116/2026 2 resulted into registration of the abovesaid FIR.
4. Charge-sheet has already been filed, however, charges have yet not been framed.
5. In the interregnum, the parties have amicably resolved all their disputes and there is already a divorce between petitioner No. 1 and respondent No.2.
6. Copy of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) dated 23.03.2026 has also been placed on record.
7. It is in the abovesaid backdrop that quashing is being sought.
8. All the petitioners are present through video-conferencing along with their counsel. Respondent No. 2-Sita has joined the proceedings through video-conferencing and has been duly identified by her counsel, who also appears through video-conferencing and also by the I.O., who is present in Court.
9. When asked, respondent No. 2 reiterates the terms of abovesaid settlement. She submits that there is already a divorce between them by way of mutual consent on 22.05.2026. She states that she has agreed to accept a total sum of Rs. 6,50,000/- as full and final settlement in lieu of istridhan, alimony, maintenance for self (past, present and future). She submits that she has already received Rs.6,50,000/- alongwith six set of clothes and one sewing machine. She states that she has entered into the abovesaid settlement out of her own free will, without any coercion and influence from any corner whatsoever and therefore, she would have ‘no objection’ if FIR in question is quashed.
10. In view of the settlement arrived at between the parties, continuing with criminal proceedings would serve no useful purpose, especially, when dispute does not involve any public interest and is, primarily, private in nature. In any W.P.(CRL) 2116/2026 3 case, even the complainant does not wish to press any charges against the petitioners.
11. Accordingly, exercising inherent powers vested in this Court under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, it is deemed appropriate to quash the instant FIR.
12. Consequently, to secure the ends of justice, FIR No. 591/2025 dated 25.07.2025, registered at Police Station Adarsh Nagar, Delhi, for commission of offences under Sections 498A/406/34 IPC, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom, is, hereby, quashed. Original affidavits and MoU of the parties, copies of which have been placed on record in the present proceedings, shall be submitted with the learned Trial Court within four weeks from today, so that these become part of Trial Court Record.
13. The petition stands disposed of in aforesaid terms.
14. The pending application also stands disposed of.
JUDGE JULY 21, 2026/nr/sa