GOPAL ALIAS LALA vs STATE (GNCT OF DELHI) THROUGH SHO & ORS.

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$~96 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 6thApril, 2026 + CRL.M.C. 2419/2025 GOPAL ALIAS LALA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. G.S. Sharma with Mr. V.K. Sharma and Mr. R.A. Sharma, Advocates. versus STATE (GNCT OF DELHI) THROUGH SHO & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State with ASI Pawan Kumar, PS Paschim Vihar East. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioner herein seeks quashing of FIR No.190/2024 dated 11.03.2024, registered at Police Station Paschim Vihar East, for commission of offence under Section 307 IPC, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise arrived at between the parties. 2. Charge-sheet has already been filed and charges have also been framed and the case is at the stage of Prosecution Evidence. 3. The concerned injured i.e. Puneet @ Happy (respondent No.3 herein) is, however, yet to enter into witness box. 4. Fact, however, remains that during the pendency of the abovesaid criminal case, the parties have entered into mutual settlement on 21.03.2025. The terms of the settlement have been reduced in writing and based on such settlement, the present petition has been filed, which seeks quashing of FIR. Signature Not Verified CRL.M.C. 2419/2025 1 Signed By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:07.04.2026 18:45:58 5. When the present matter was taken up by the learned Joint Registrar (Judicial) on 08.04.2025, it recorded statements of the petitioner as well as of the concerned injured and in his such statement, the injured had claimed that the matter had been amicably settled and that such settlement had been arrived at, without any force, coercion, undue influence and pressure and that he did not want to pursue FIR in view of such settl