ORDER 1. Heard on the question of admission. 2. The applicants have filed this application under section 482 CrPC, for quashing the criminal case registered against them. 3. It is stated by the learned counsel for the parties that the respondent had filed a complaint against the applicants in respect of which charges for offence punishable under sections 420, 467, 468 and 109 IPC, has been framed in S.T No.210/2011 which is pending before the Additional Sessions Judge, Lakhnadon, District Seoni. It is submitted that the matter relates to a dispute relating to the land on which the applicants had allegedly got their names mutated. 4. The learned counsel for the parties submit that in respect of the same dispute a civil suit had been filed by the parties which was registered as C.S No.22-A/2010 before the Civil Judge Class-I Lakhnadon and in the said proceedings the parties have entered into a compromise in the Lok Adalat and a decree in terms of the compromise has been passed by the Court on 30.11.2013. It is stated that as the parties had compromised the matter and there is no likelihood of conviction in the criminal proceedings, therefore, in view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Shiji @ Pappu and others v. Radhika and another, AIR 2012 SC 499 , the prosecution against the applicants be quashed. 5. The facts are not disputed by either of the parties and both agree that the proceedings be quashed. 6. The Supreme Court in the case of Shiji @ Pappu (supra) has held that even if offences for which a person is being charged and is being tried, are not compoundable, the Court in exercise of powers under section 482 CrPC, can quash the proceedings in case there is no possibility of any conviction and the exercise undertaken before the criminal Court is an empty formality and is futile. 7. In view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Shiji @ Pappu (supra) and the statement of the learned counsel for the parties, as the matter has already been compromised between them in the civil proceedings and there is no likelihood of any conviction in the case pending before the competent Court, the criminal proceedings pending against the applicants before the Additional Sessions Judge, Lakhnadon in S.T No.210/2011 are hereby quashed. 8. 8. The application filed by the applicants is, accordingly, allowed.