IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 14172 of 2010(O&M) Date of Decision: May 21, 2010. Sunil Kumar and others ...... PETITIONERS Versus State of Punjab and another. ...... RESPONDENTS CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr. Ramandeep Singh, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG, Punjab. Mr. Amandeep Sibia, Advocate for respondent No.2. ***** 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.65, dated 06.09.2009 under Sections 406/498-A IPC registered at P.S. Division No.4, Ludhiana, 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-14172 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 the parties is matrimonial in nature and the same has been settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives from both the sides. It has also been stated that respondent No.2 – complainant and her husband, petitioner No.1 – Sunil Kumar have started living together as per compromise, Annexure P2. 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. 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 from both the sides, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.65, dated 06.09.2009 under Sections 406/498-A IPC registered at P.S. Division No.4, Ludhiana, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners – Sunil Kumar, Sumitra, Babli and Anju is, hereby, quashed. 2 CRM No.M-14172 of 2010 ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) May 21, 2010. JUDGE 'om' 3