Full Judgment
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE G.GIRISH FRIDAY, THE 29TH DAY OF DECEMBER 2023 / 8TH POUSHA, 1945 CRL.REV.PET NO. 1344 OF 2023 AGAINST THE ORDER/JUDGMENT CC 970/2012 OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS ,TALIPARAMBA CRA 21/2016 OF DISTRICT COURT & SESSIONS COURT,THALASSERY REVISION PETITIONER/ACCUSED: K.DINESHAN AGED 62 YEARS, S/O LATE KONGINI RAGHAVAN, RESIDING AT TMC.XV-251, BEHIND RAJASTHAN MARBLE PALACE, KUTTIKOLE P.O, THALIPARAMBA TALUK, KANNUR DISTRICT, PIN - 670562 BY ADVS. P.V.THOMAS TONY GEORGE THOMAS RESPONDENTS/COMPLAINANT/STATE: 1 C.C.KRISHNAN AGED 60 YEARS, S/O KOMAN NAIR, RESIDING AT LEVIL, KOOVERY, THALIPARAMBA, KANNUR DISTRICT, PIN - 670581 2 STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA, PIN - 682031 BY ADV. SR.-SRI.SANGEETHRAJ N.R. PP SRI. P.R. AJITH KUMAR THIS CRIMINAL REVISION PETITION HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 29.12.2023, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:
G. GIRISH, J.
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ORDER
The Revision Petitioner, along with the 1 st respondent, has filed this petition under Section 147 of the Negotiable Instrument Act r/w Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, for compounding the case and for terminating the procedures.
2. The revision petitioner was the accused
in CC No.970/2012 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thaliparamba. He was convicted and sentenced by the learned Magistrate for the commission of offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act. Since, the conviction was upheld in appeal, he preferred the present revision against the 1 st
3. Now, that it is submitted by the learned
counsel for the revision petitioner, as well as the learned counsel for the 1st respondent, that the issue has been amicably settled between the parties and that there is no claim whatsoever subsisting from the revision petitioner to the 1 st
4. Having regard to the above facts relating
to the settlement of the dispute between the parties, I feel that, it is necessary to terminate this revision proceedings as well as all further proceedings consequent to the impugned judgments of the courts below. In the result, the petition stands allowed. The case which was numbered as CC No.970/2012 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thaliparamba, which resulted in the present revision proceedings stands lawfully compounded. The petitioner/accused is acquitted under Section 320(8) of Cr.P.C. r/w Section 147 of the Negotiable Instrument Act. Sd/- G. GIRISH nvj JUDGE