Crl. Misc. No. M-4670 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Misc. No. M-4670 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 13.7.2010 Rajwant Singh Walia & others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. A.S. Khinda, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Mr. N.S. Minhas, Advocate, for respondents No.2 & 3. Rajan Gupta, J. (oral) The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No.271 dated 1st September, 2008 (Annexure P-1) under Sections 379, 325, 323, 506 read with Section 34 IPC, registered at police station City Kapurthala and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Complainant/respondents No.2 & 3 are present in Court. They are duly identified by their counsel. They have filed their affidavits in court today, which are taken on record as Mark 'A' and Mark 'B' respectively, wherein the factum of compromise arrived at between the parties has been admitted. They state that they have no objection if the present FIR is quashed. Crl. Misc. No. M-4670 of 2010 2 Learned State counsel submits that both complainant and the accused party have already brought to the notice of the police during investigation that a compromise has already been effected between the parties and acted upon, upon which further investigation was carried out in the matter and it was reported by the Investigating Officer that on account of the said compromise between the parties, no further action is called for in the matter. He submits that since the parties have arrived at an amicable settlement, the State would not stand in the way of quashing of the FIR on the basis of compromise. 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 deserve to be quashed in the light of the decision of a 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 and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. (RAJAN GUPTA) JUDGE 13.7.2010 'rajpal'