CRM No. M-29802 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CRM No. M-29802 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision: 18.11.2009 Jasmanpreet Singh & others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab & another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. K.S. Chahal, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, DAG, Punjab. Ms. Jigyasa Tanwar, Advocate, for respondent No.2. Rajan Gupta, J (oral). The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No.110 dated 10th September, 2009, under Sections 366, 511, 427, 293, 294, 506 read with Section 34 IPC, registered at Police Station Sudhar, District Ludhiana Rural, District Ludhiana (Annexure P-1) and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Learned counsel for the State has pointed out that keeping in view the nature of crime, where the petitioners have made obscene calls to the sister-in-law of the complainant and also tried to follow her and harassed her on the road and market, some heavy costs need to be imposed upon them. CRM No. M-29802 of 2009 2 Under the circumstances, learned counsel for the petitioners undertakes that the petitioners shall remit Rs.30,000/- as compensation to the complainant and also remit an amount of Rs.10,000/- as costs incurred by the State after investigating machinery was set into motion due to registration of FIR. In facts and circumstances of the case, it will be in the interest of the parties that FIR in question is quashed. No useful purpose is likely to be served with continuance of the criminal proceedings in view of amicable settlement of the same. In view of the above, the present FIR and the consequent proceedings deserve to be quashed in the light of the decision of 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 subject to the petitioners complying with the undertaking aforesaid. The amount of compensation (Rs.30,000/-) and costs (Rs.10,000/-) will be paid to the complainant and Punjab State Legal Services Authority respectively by the petitioners, within a month from the receipt of certified copy of this order. A copy of this order be sent to the Punjab State Legal Services Authority, Chandigarh. (RAJAN GUPTA) JUDGE November 18, 2009 'rajpal'