Despite service of notice, there is no one present on behalf of the added
respondent No.2, Supriya Chopra.
This Special Leave Petition is directed against an order passed by the
Punjab & Haryana High Court allowing the petitioner's prayer for interim
anticipatory bail subject to the petitioner paying a sum of Rs. 1 lakh to the
complainant within a period of 15 days from the date of the order in the presence of
the Investigating Officer. It now transpires from
certain submission made on behalf of the petitioner, which is also supported by
certain orders, that the First Information Report, being No. 359 dated 12th August,
2006, of P.S. Central Faridabad, Distt. Faridabad, has been quashed by the High
Court on the basis of compromise effected between the parties. The terms of
compromise have been set out in the order of the Punjab & Haryana High Court
dated 8th May, 2007.
Pursuant to the said order consequential steps have also been taken in the
Matrimonial Suit which has ultimately ended in mutual divorce under Section 13-B
of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
As far as the compromise is concerned, the same appears to have been
worked out. In view of the quashing of the FIR, nothing further remains as far as
this Special Leave Petition is concerned, however, while issuing notice on 18th
September, 2006, this Court had directed the petitioner to deposit a sum of Rs. 1 lakh
with the Registrar General of the Punjab & Haryana High Court within two weeks
from the date of the said order. It is submitted that the same was duly deposited by
the petitioner. Inasmuch as the said amount directed to be deposited by this Court
has no connection with the terms of settlement arrived at between the parties, we
direct that the said amount deposited with the Punjab & Haryana High Court to be
made over to the petitioner on receipt of a copy of this order.
The Special Leave Petition is disposed of accordingly.
(Ganga Thakur) ( Juginder Kaur ) P.S. to Registrar Court Master