Criminal Misc. No.2949 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.2949 of 2009 Date of decision: November 04, 2009 Inderpal Singh & others -Petitioners Versus State of Punjab & another -Respondents Coram Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. RK Aggarwal, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Shilesh Gupta, DAG, Punjab. Mr. RK Dhiman, Advocate, for respondent No.2. Rajan Gupta, J.(Oral) The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No. 144 dated 25-4-2002 under Sections 406/498-A/120-B IPC, registered at police station Model Town, Ludhiana, (Annexure P-1) on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Simran Kaur, Complainant/respondent No.2 is present in Court. She is duly identified by his counsel. She has filed her affidavit in Court today ( taken on record as Mark 'A') admitting therein the factum of compromise arrived at between her and the petitioners. She states that she has no objection if the present FIR is quashed. Learned State counsel submits that since the parties have arrived at an amicable settlement, the State would not stand in the way of quashing of the FIR on the basis of compromise. Criminal Misc. No.2949 of 2009 2 The compromise is in the interest of the parties and after the matter has been resolved by an amicable settlement, no useful purpose is likely to be served with continuance of the criminal proceedings, which would be a futile exercise. In view of the above, the present FIR and the consequent proceedings deserve to be quashed in the light of the decision of a Full Bench of this Court in Kulwinder Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR ( Crl.) 1052. Resultantly, the present petition is allowed, the FIR and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. [Rajan Gupta] Judge November04, 2009. 'ask'