IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 34290 of 2010 Date of decision: 16.12.2010 Sarabjit Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Sanjiv Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner Ms.Bhavna Gupta, DAG, Punjab *** Ram Chand Gupta, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed by petitioner Sarabjit Singh under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of FIR No.148 dated 25.4.2010 (Annexure P-1) registered under Sections 406, 498-A, 323 IPC at Police Station Tripri Town, Patiala and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 20.11.2010 Annexure P-2, having been entered into between the parties. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record. It has been stated by learned counsel for the petitioner that dispute between the parties has since been amicably settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives of both the sides and that both the parties have started living together. CRM No.M 34290 of 2010 -2- On the direction of this Court, parties appeared before learned trial Court, who recorded the statements and sent the report to the effect that the compromise effected between the parties is a voluntary one. It has been mentioned in the said report that now both the parties are living together. In appropriate cases FIR can be quashed on the basis of compromise by exercising power under Section 482 Cr.P.C., even if the offences are not compoundable. It was so held by Full Bench of this Court in the case of Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR (Crl.) 1052. Since the parties have amicably settled the matter and compromise has been effected between them due to intervention of the respectable persons and relatives, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.148 dated 25.4.2010 (Annexure P-1) registered under Sections 406, 498-A, 323 IPC at Police Station Tripri Town, Patiala, alongwith all consequential proceedings arising therefrom qua petitioner – Sarabjit Singh is, hereby, quashed. December 16, 2010 (RAM CHAND GUPTA) gsv JUDGE