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Nikhil Merchant vs C.B.I. & Anr on 20 August, 2008

6. Powers under Sec.482 Cr.P.C. are to be invoked only under exceptional circumstances and that too in the interests of justice. An offence under Sec.376 IPC is not compoundable. It is one of the grave offences for which severe punishment is prescribed in the Penal Code. The simple fact that the 2nd respondent, who continues in matrimony with the 2nd accused and has three children in such wed-lock, is pressured by circumstances to compound the offence against the petitioners cannot weigh with me as a sufficient reason to invoke the jurisdiction under Sec.482 Cr.P.C. It is true that the decisions in Madhan Mohan Abbot ; Nikhil Merchant and Manoj Sharma (supra) have held that composition of non- compoundable offences can be reckoned as a relevant input while considering the prayer for quashing of prosecution under Sec.482 Cr.P.C.; but it is not the law that as soon as the victim comes before the court and submits that she has no objection and has compounded such an offence, the prosecution deserves to be quashed whatever the nature of the offence.
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