MADHURIMA BHARGAVA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) S. K. Phaujdar, J. Heard Sri B. K. Awasthi for the applicant and Sri Puskar Mahrotra for respondent. No. 2, as well as the learned AGA.

(2.) THE present application has been filed for quashing the impugned charge sheet for the offence under Section 498-A I. P. C. and Section 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act at the instance of the wife-respondent against the husband and other relations of the husband who figure as the applicants in this case. This relates to case Crime No. 1192 of 1992, corresponding to Criminal Case No. 799 of 1994 pending before the CJM, Nainital. At the present stage, it is submitted on behalf of both the parties that the husband and the wife have arrived at a compromise and there had been a mutual divorce and the wife is not willing to proceed with the case, and as such he should be allowed to compound the case and the proceedings are to be dropped.

(3.) THE power of the Supreme Court under Article 142 of the Constitution are widest. Under this Article the Supreme Court may pass such order as may be necessary for doing complete justice in any case or in a matter pending before it. THEre is no parallel power given to the High Court, as has been given to the Supreme Court under this Article.