Criminal Misc. No. 2906-M of 2008 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 2906-M of 2008 Date of decision : March 03, 2008 Manjit Kaur and others .....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Brijeshwar Singh Bhalla, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. Anter Singh Brar, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for respondent No. 1 Mr. N.K. Sharma, Advocate for respondent no. 2/complainant. RAJESH BINDAL J. The prayer made in this petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ( for short “the Code”) is for quashing FIR No. 217 dated April 29, 2006 registered under Sections 306 and 511 IPC at Police Station City Sadar, Jalandhar and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the dispute between the parties has been settled amicably. The affidavit of the complainant has also been placed on record as Annexure P-1 in which complainant stated that she is not willing to prosecute the petitioners and intending to withdraw her complainant. Complainant further stated that she has no objection in case FIR in question is cancelled. Once that is so the FIR in question registered against the petitioners be quashed. Reliance has been placed upon a five Judge Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab 2007 (3) Law Herald (P&H) 2225. The facts stated by the petitioners are not disputed by the learned counsel for respondent no. 2/complainant. Reply on behalf of Respondent no. 2/ complainant, has been filed in Court today in which she Criminal Misc. No. 2906-M of 2008 -2- **** admitted the contents of the petition filed by the petitioner and stated that petition may be allowed in view of the compromise. Once the matter has been compromised between the parties, no useful purpose will be served in proceeding with the prosecution. Accordingly, considering the law laid down by this Court in Kulwinder Singh's case (supra), FIR No. 217 dated April 29, 2006 registered under Sections 306 and 511 IPC at Police Station City Sadar, Jalandhar and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. The petition is disposed of accordingly. March 03, 2008 (Rajesh Bindal) Pka Judge