IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-26878 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision: 22.11.2011. Pawan Kumar and another ..Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Naveen Batra, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Sudhir Nehra, Addl. A.G. Punjab, for respondent No.1 – State. None for respondent No.2. NAWAB SINGH, J. (ORAL) Petitioners are facing trial in case bearing First Information Report (for short 'FIR') No.152 dated December 18th, 2010, under Sections 406 and 420 of Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC'), Police Station Bullowal, District Hoshiarpur (Annexure P-1). They seek quashing of FIR by filing this petition. 2. By order dated September 5th, 2011, Ritu Bahri, J. directed the trial Court to record the statements of the parties. In compliance with the same, Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hoshiarpur recorded the statements of the parties, whereby, they stated that they have compromised the matter. Compromise-deed (Annexure P-2) has also been placed on record. 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. 3. In view of the above, the petition is accepted, FIR No. 152 dated December 18th, 2010, under Sections 406 and 420 IPC, Police Station Bullowal, District Hoshiarpur (Annexure P-1) and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. 22.11.2011 (NAWAB SINGH) neetu JUDGE