In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh Crl. Misc. No. M- 33706 of 2008 Date of Decision:29-01-2009 Lakhvir Singh ---Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another ---Respondents Coram: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA Present: Mr. Surender Garg, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Aman Deep Singh Rai, AAG, Punjab Mr.Kashmir Singh, Advocate, for the complainant SABINA, J. Petitioner-Lakhbir Singh has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereafter referred to as 'Cr.P.C.') for quashing FIR No. 22 dated 4.3.2007 under Sections 363/366 of the Indian Penal Code registered at Police Station Gidderbaha, District Muktsar and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise(Annexure P-2). Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the prosecutrix has since been married. He further submits that the petitioner is a young man of 22 years of age and the parties have arrived at a compromise. Learned counsel for the complainant has placed on record reply by way of affidavit of the complainant, wherein the complainant has Crl. Misc. No. M- 33706 of 2008 -2- deposed that with the intervention of the respectables of the village, a compromise dated 12.12.2008 (Anneuxre P-2) has been arrived at between both the parties as they want to live in peace. It has further been deposed that he has performed the marriage of his daughter and has no objection if the FIR, in question be quashed. As per the Full Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh and others vs. State of Punjab, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052, High Court has power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to allow the compounding of non-compoundable offence and quash the prosecution where the High Court felt that the same was required to prevent the abuse of the process of any Court or to otherwise secure the ends of justice. This power of quashing is not confined to matrimonial disputes alone. Since the parties have arrived at a compromise and have decided to live in peace and the complainant has performed the marriage of his daughter and also keeping in view the age of the petitioner in mind, it would be just and expedient to quash the FIR, in question. Accordingly, this petition is allowed. FIR No. 22 dated 4.3.2007 under Sections 363/366 of the Indian Penal Code registered at Police Station Gidderbaha, District Muktsar and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are hereby quashed. (SABINA) JUDGE January 29, 2009 PARAMJIT