Crl. Misc. No. M-16621 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Misc. No. M-16621 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 10.8.2010 Surinder Kumar Ralhan ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Ms. Kiran Verma, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Mr. Ram Pal Verma, Advocate, for Mr. BBS Sobti, Advocate, for the complainant/respondent No.2. Rajan Gupta, J. (oral) The petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No. 28 dated 5th May, 2006 (Annexure P-1) under Section 63 Copyrights Act, 77 & 78 of the Trade & Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 and 420, 487 and 488 of IPC, registered at police station Division No.8, Ludhiana and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Complainant/respondent No.2 is present in court. He is duly identified by his counsel. He has filed an affidavit in court today, which is taken on record as Mark 'A', wherein the factum of compromise arrived at between the parties has been admitted. He states that he has no objection if the present FIR is quashed. Crl. Misc. No. M-16621 of 2010 2 Learned State counsel 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 10.8.2010 'rajpal'