IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 30499 of 2010 Date of decision: 6.12.2010 Jeewan Singh and another ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.SS Salar, Advocate for the petitioners Ms.Bhavna Gupta, DAG, Punjab Mr.Munish Raj, Advocate for respondent No.2. *** Ram Chand Gupta, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed by petitioners Jeewan Singh and Balwinder Kaur under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of FIR No.85 dated 17.9.2010 registered under Sections 406, 498-A IPC at Police Station Bhadson, District Patiala and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise Annexure P-1. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. Learned counsel for the petitioners contends that the dispute between the parties is of matrimonial in nature and the same has been amicably settled with the intervention of the respectable persons and relatives of the parties vide compromise Annexure P-2. CRM No.M 30499 of 2010 -2- Respondent No.2- complainant, who is also present alongwith her counsel, has filed her reply by way of affidavit admitting the factum of compromise. The same is taken on record. Parties have appeared before the learned trial court. Report has been received from the learned trial court to the effect that the compromise is voluntary. 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, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.85 dated 17.9.2010 registered under Sections 406, 498-A IPC at Police Station Bhadson, District Patiala alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners Jeewan Singh and Balwinder Kaur is, hereby, quashed. December 6, 2010 (RAM CHAND GUPTA) gsv JUDGE