Delhi High Court Asks Parties To Clean Yamuna River For 45 Days, Quashes Assault FIR Based On Compromise

While quashing an FIR registered after a fight resulting in simple injuries, the Delhi High Court directed the complainant as well as the respondent parties to clean river Yamuna for a period or 45 days.

Justice Jasmeet Singh directed the parties to work with Delhi Jal Board Team under the supervision of Member, Drainage.

"At the end of satisfactory service, the petitioners and respondents will be given a certificate by Delhi Jal Board for Yamua Cleaning and this certificate by each of the petitioners and respondents must be placed on record within one week of their receipt," the Court directed.

It said "It is expected that the petitioners and respondents will help in cleaning Yamuna river with all their sincere efforts and energies"

The Court thus quashed the FIR registered under sec. 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (Punishment for wrongful restraint), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation), 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

The petitioners had moved the High Court seeking quashing of the FIR registered against them after their children and the children of the complainant, had a fight wherein the parents got involved which resulted in an altercation. As per the MLC, the nature of injuries were stated to be simple.

It was submitted that both the parties had arrived at a settlement wherein all the disputes had been settled between them. Both the parties stated that they had entered into the compromise of their own will, volition and without any coercion.

"Both the parties regret their action and assure this Court that such actions will not take place in future," the Court noted.

Accordingly, the Court quashed the FIR while directing the parties to report to the Member, Drainage within a period of ten days.

The matter is now listed for compliance on August 16.

Case Title: MAMTA DEVI AND ORS v. THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS

Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 558

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