IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 3357 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision : April 20, 2009 Major Singh ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another ....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pritam Pal Present : Mr. MK Dogra, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. Abhishek Chautala, AAG Punjab Mr. Mehtab Singh, Advocate , for the respondent no. 2 Pritam Pal,J. (Oral) Petitioner has brought this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of F.I.R. No. 102 dated 16.6.1999 registered under Sections 326, 324, 323, 148, 149 of the Indian Penal Code at Police Station Tanda, District Hoshiarpur and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom. Without going into any further details, suffice it to say that the petitioner in this case was declared as a proclaimed offender in the year 2002. However, later on he was arrested and is presently lodged in a jail. Now the parties have arrived at a compromise in this case with the intervention of the respectables. It is also an admitted fact that co-accused in this case have already been acquitted in the year 2003. Learned counsel for the petitioner further contends that, in fact, the petitioner is a family man having two minor daughters and he had left abroad for earning his Criminal Misc. No. 3357 of 2009 (O&M) -2- livelihood and from there he did not turn up for such a long period under the impression that the case against him had also been finished as co-accused had already been acquitted by the court. Be that as it may, today complainant Sukhwinder Pal Singh is present in the Court and identified by Sh. Mehtab Singh, Advocate. On the query put to him, Sukhwinder Pal Singh states that he and the petitioner are co-villagers and now the matter has been settled amicably between them. In this regard, compromise deed dated 22.12.2008 Annexure P/2 is also placed on the file. In the given facts and circumstances, this Court feels that no useful purpose would be served if the proceedings in the case in hand are allowed to continue. More-over, it would be in the interest of peace and social harmony between the parties to close the chapter of this case. In the result, this petition succeeds and consequently, F.I.R. No. 102 dated 16.6.1999 registered under Sections 326, 324, 323, 148, 149 of the Indian Penal Code at Police Station Tanda, District Hoshiarpur and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby ordered to be quashed, qua the petitioner. ( Pritam Pal ) April 20, 2009 Judge 'dalbir'