IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Criminal Misc. No. M-9523 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision: September 12, 2011 Kulbir Singh and others ... Petitioners Versus Union Territory, Chandigarh and another ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr.Ravinder Rana, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.Anil Kumar Lamdharia, APP for UT, Chandigarh. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) By filing this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioners have sought quashing of First Information Report (for short 'FIR) No.239 dated December 22nd, 2008 (Annexure P1) registered under Sections 147, 323, 506 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') in Police Station Sector-3, Chandigarh. By order dated March 29th, 2011, Daya Chaudhary, J. directed the parties to appear before the trial Court and the trial Court was directed to record the statements of the parties. In compliance with the same, Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chandigarh recorded the statements of the parties, whereby, they stated that they have compromised the matter. Compromise-deed (Annexure P2) has also been placed on record. In the circumstances, there cannot be any embargo in allowing the parties to compromise the matter in view of the law laid down by the Five Judge Bench's decision of this Court rendered in Kulwinder Singh & others Vs. State of Punjab and another, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052. Thus, this Court is also of opinion that no useful purpose would be served by allowing the criminal proceedings to continue against the petitioners. In view of the above, the petition is accepted, FIR No.239 dated December 22nd, 2008 (Annexure P1) registered under Sections 147, 323, 506 read with Section 149 IPC in Police Station Sector-3, Chandigarh and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. September 12, 2011 ( NAWAB SINGH ) `gian' JUDGE