Criminal Misc.No.M-14465 of 2010(O&M) [ 1 ] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Criminal Misc. No. M-14465 of 2010 (O&M) Karanjit Singh ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab & another ... Respondents Criminal Misc. No. M-13624 of 2010 (O&M) Raj Kumar and another ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ... Respondents and Criminal Misc. No. M-14994 of 2011 (O&M) Bhupinder Singh and others ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ... Respondents Date of Decision: August 09, 2011 CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr.P.S.Ahluwalia, Advocate for the petitioners (CRM Nos.M-14465 & M-13624 of 2010). Mr.Sudhir Nehra, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for respondent – State. Mr.GPS Bal, Advocate for respondent No.2. (petitioners in CRM No.M-14994 of 2011) NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) This order shall dispose of above mentioned three petitions, because all these petitions have arisen out of same occurrence. In first two petitions, the petitioners have sought quashing of Criminal Complaint No.11 dated August 29th, 2007, filed by Jagiri Ram – respondent No.2, under Sections 323, 332, 353, 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short `IPC') and Sections 3 and 4 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short `SC & ST Act'), pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hoshiarpur. In the third petition, quashing of First Information Report (for short `FIR') No.42 Criminal Misc.No.M-14465 of 2010(O&M) [ 2 ] dated September 15th, 2006, registered under Sections 323, 353 and 506 IPC in Police Station City Model Town, Hoshiarpur is sought. The petitioners are the employees of the Punjab State Electricity Board and the Punjab Police. On the complaint made by the Board through its Executive Engineer, the FIR in question was registered against respondent No.2 and two other police officials (petitioners in CRM No.M-14994 of 2011). It is pleaded, that now, both the parties have entered into a compromise to keep cordial relations among themselves and have amicably resolved all their differences. By order dated May 24th, 2011, Daya Chaudhary, J. directed the parties to appear before the trial court and the trial Court was directed to record the statements of the parties. In compliance with the same, Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hoshiarpur recorded the statements of the parties, whereby, they stated that they have compromised the matter. In the given circumstances, there cannot 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. In view of the above, the petitions are accepted. Criminal Complaint No.11 dated August 29th, 2007, under Sections 323, 332, 353, 506 read with Section 34 IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the SC & ST Act, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hoshiarpur, as also the FIR No.42 dated September 15th, 2006, registered under Sections 323, 353 and 506 IPC in Police Station City Model Town, Hoshiarpur and all subsequent proceedings arising out of the complaint and FIR case, are hereby quashed. August 09, 2011 ( NAWAB SINGH ) gian JUDGE