IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-27683 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: 1.11.2011 Kishan Lal ….Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others …..Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Mohit Jaggi, Advocate for Mr. R.P.S. Cheema, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sudhir Nehra, Addl. AG, Punjab. Rupinder Kuar-complainant-respondent No.2 and Hussan Lal- respondent No.3 in person with Mr. Onkar Rai, Advocate. NAWAB SINGH, J. (ORAL) By filing this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioner seeks quashing of First Information Report (for short `FIR’) No.118 dated August 26th, 2011 (Annexure P1) registered under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (for short `IPC’) in Police Station Sadar, Hoshiarpur. Rupinder Kaur-complainant-respondent No.2 and her father Hussan Lal-respondent No.3 are present in court with their counsel. They have stated at bar that they have compromised the matter with the petitioner with the intervention of respectables. Affidavits (Annexure P-2 & P-3) have been placed on record. They also stated that they have no objection if the aforesaid FIR and all the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. The dispute between the parties was of personal nature. In view of this, there should not be any impediment in allowing the parties to compromise the matter. Support to this view can be had from the authority 'Madan Mohan Abbot Vs. State of Punjab' 2008 (2) RCR (Criminal) 429, wherein, Hon'ble Supreme Court has ruled that in such type of cases, where the dispute is of personal nature, Court should ordinarily, accept the compromise. Criminal Misc. No. M-27683 of 2011 -2- In view of the above, the petition is accepted, FIR No.118 dated August 26th, 2011 (Annexure P1) registered under Section 420 of the IPC in Police Station Sadar Hoshiarpur and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are hereby quashed. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 1.11.2011 Ishwar