IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 31401 of 2010(O&M) Date of Decision: December 13, 2010. Kashmir Singh ...... PETITIONER(s) Versus State of Punjab and another. ...... RESPONDENT (s) CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr. Rajneesh Kaushal, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Bhavna Gupta, D.A.G., Punjab. Mr. Ranjan Kumar Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.2 –complainant. ***** RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of FIR No.112 dated 23.07.2010 under Section 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Sadar District Hoshiarpur, Annexure P1, and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise, Annexure P2, having been entered into between the parties. CRM NO.M-31401 of 2010 I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record. It has been stated by learned counsel for the parties that dispute between petitioner and respondent No.2-complainant is matrimonial in nature and the same has since been settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives from both the sides and that petitioner and respondent No.2 have started living together. Respondent No.2 – complainant also appeared in person with her counsel and filed reply by way of affidavit admitting the factum of compromise and stating that she is having no objection if the FIR and consequential proceedings are quashed. She has further stated that she has started living together with her husband i.e. the present petitioner. In appropriate cases FIR can be quashed on the basis of compromise by exercising power under Section 482 Cr.P.C., even if the offences are not compoundable. It was so held by Full Bench of this Court in the case of Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR (Crl.) 1052. Since the parties have amicably settled the matter and compromise has been effected between them due to intervention of the respectable persons and relatives, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.112 dated 23.07.2010 under Section 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Sadar District Hoshiarpur, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioner – Kashmir Singh is, hereby, quashed. 2 CRM NO.M-31401 of 2010 ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) December 13, 2010. JUDGE 'om' 3