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Non-Reportable
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
Criminal Appeal No…………..of 2025
(@Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.6653 of 2025)
Baburam Gautam and Ors.
...Appellants
Versus
State of U.P. and Another.
...Respondents
O R D E R
Leave granted.
2. The above appeal is filed against the rejection of an
application under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure
Code, 1973, wherein the prayer was to quash the entire
proceedings in Criminal Case No. IX of 2024 arising out of
Case Crime No.177 of 2023 instituted in the Mahila Thana,
District Mathura and pending in the Court of Civil Judge
(J.D.)/F.T.C.(C.A.W)/Judicial Magistrate, Mathura. When
the matter came up before this Court for hearing on
09.09.2025, the original two appellants and the additional
3rd appellant, impleaded by order of even date and the 2nd
respondent, husband and wife, submitted before us that the
matter has been settled, and certain issues have to be
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thrashed out, before full compliance is reported by filing a
joint application.
3. Today when the matter came up, the husband and wife
were present before us. We were told that the matter has
been settled and together with the terms of settlement, a
joint application has been filed under Article 142 of the
Constituti...