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TMI Blog2022 (11) TMI 557X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 2. Mr. Niranjan Kumar Sinha, the learned counsel appears for OP No. 2. 3. Ms. Nehala Sharmin, the learned Spl.PP appears for the State. 4. Alongwith I.A.(cr.) No. 4457 of 2015, supplementary affidavit dated 10th August 2015 has been filed by which a joint compromise agreement signed by the petitioners and the complainant in the presence of two witnesses has been brought on record. A photocopy of the Electoral Photo Identity Card of Raj Kumar Narsia authenticated by him has also been attached alongwith the supplementary affidavit dated 10th August 2015. 5. Mr. Kripa Shankar Nanda, the learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have already paid Rs. 40,000/- for which Gumla PS Case No. 152 of 1999 was instituted by th ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... er IPC or offences of moral turpitude under special statutes, like the Prevention of Corruption Act or the offences committed by public servants while working in that capacity, the settlement between the offender and the victim can have no legal sanction at all. However, certain offences which overwhelmingly and predominantly bear civil flavour having arisen out of civil, mercantile, commercial, financial, partnership or such like transactions or the offences arising out of matrimony, particularly relating to dowry, etc. or the family dispute, where the wrong is basically to the victim and the offender and the victim have settled all disputes between them amicably, irrespective of the fact that such offences have not been made compoundable, ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... of Section 320 CrPC, which would not in the strict sense of the term apply to a proceeding under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, gives the parties to the proceedings an opportunity to compound offences mentioned in the table contained in the said section, with or without the leave of the court, and also vests the court with jurisdiction to allow such compromise. By virtue of sub-section (8), the legislature has taken one step further in vesting jurisdiction in the court to also acquit the accused/convict of the offence on the same being allowed to be compounded. 11. Inasmuch as, it is with a similar object in mind that Section 147 has been inserted into the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 by amendment, an analogy may be drawn as t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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