Criminal Misc. No. M-22424 of 2009 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-22424 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision: 29.07.2011. Subhash Singla and others ..Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Petitioners in person with Mr. Kamaljit Singh, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Sidharth Gupta, Advocate. Mr. Sudhir Nehra, Addl. A.G. Punjab, for respondent No.1 – State. Rajesh Kumar-respondent No.3 in person with Mr. S.K. Singla, Advocate, for respondents No.2 and 3. NAWAB SINGH.J (ORAL) By filing this petition, petitioners seek quashing of First Information Report (for short 'FIR') No.127 dated June 20th, 2009, under Sections 307, 323, 324, 452 and 506 read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC'), Police Station Model Town, Ludhiana (Annexure P-1). Grounds pleaded are that after registration of the case, parties have compromised the matter. Tripta Devi and Rajesh Kumar, respondents No.2 and 3, respectively have tendered their affidavits (Annexure P-2 and P-3). Indeed, the offences, for which the petitioners are facing trial, are non-compoundable. Notwithstanding that, there can not be any embargo in allowing the parties to compromise the matter in view of the law laid down by the Five Judge Bench's decision of this Court rendered in Kulwinder Singh & others Vs. State of Punjab and another, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052. By quashing the FIR, the parties will be able to co-exist peacefully in future putting the end to the dispute for all times to Criminal Misc. No. M-22424 of 2009 (O&M) 2 come. In view of above, the petition is accepted, FIR No. 127 dated June 20th, 2009, under Sections 307, 323, 324, 452 and 506 read with Section 34 IPC, Police Station Model Town, Ludhiana (Annexure P-1) and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 29.07.2011 neetu