IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc No. M-31490 of 2008 Date of decision : 15.04.2009 Harvinder Kaur and others ....Petitioners V/s State of Haryana and another ....Respondents. BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Sandeep S.Majithia, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, DAG Punjab for the respondent No. 1-State. Mr. Jatinder Singh, Advocate for respondent No. 2. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) This is a petition for quashing of the FIR No. 179 dated 24.08.2008 registered under Sections 307, 323, 506, 148, 149 and 427 IPC at police station 'B' division Amritsar on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Counsel for the petitioners submits that the matter has been amicably settled by the parties and the complainant does not want to press the charges. Learned counsel for the complainant does not dispute this statement made by counsel for the petitioner. Counsel for the State has also filed a reply by way of an affidavit of Manwinder Singh, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Pollice City- 1, Amritsar. According to the said affidavit, offence under Section 307 IPC has not been proved and has been deleted from the FIR. Learned counsel Crl. Misc No. M-31490 of 2008 -2- for the State further submits that in case a compromise has been arrived at between the parties, the State shall not stand in the way of quashing of the FIR in question. Learned counsel for the complainant has referred to the affidavit of the complainant filed on 29.01.2009, when he was present in Court and has pointed out that the complainant had clearly stated therein that he had no objection to quashing of the FIR in question. The compromise is in the interest of the parties and after the matter has been resolved by an amicable settlement, no useful purpose is likely to be served with continuance of the criminal proceedings. In view of the above, the present FIR and the consequent proceedings arising therefrom deserve to be quashed in the light of the decision of Full Bench of this Court in Kulwinder Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab, 2007 (3) RCR(Crl.), 1052. Resultantly the present petition is allowed, the FIR in question and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. 15.04.2009 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE