Criminal Misc. No. 52002-M of 2007 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 52002-M of 2007 Date of decision : February 18, 2008 Bhupinder Singh and others .....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Ms. G.K.Mann, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. J.S. Bhuller, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for respondent No. 1. Mr. H.S.Sangha, Advocate for respondent no. 2. RAJESH BINDAL, J. The prayer made in this petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ( for short “the Code”) is for quashing FIR No. 8 dated January 6, 2000 registered under Sections 419, 420 and 120-B IPC at Police Station Civil Lines, Amritsar and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the dispute between the parties has been settled amicably. Affdiavit of the complainant has also been placed on record as Annexure P-2 in which complainant while admitting the factum of compromise, stated that he has no objection, if the FIR in question is quashed. Reliance has been placed upon a five Judge Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab 2007 (3) Law Herald (P&H) 2225. The facts stated by the petitioners are not disputed by the respondent no. 2, who is present in Court. Once the matter has been compromised between the parties, no useful purpose will be served in proceeding with the prosecution. Accordingly, considering the law laid down by this Court in Kulwinder Criminal Misc. No. 52002-M of 2007 -2- **** Singh's case (supra), FIR No.8 dated January 6, 2000 registered under Sections 419, 420 and 120-B IPC at Police Station Civil Lines, Amritsar and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. The petition is disposed of accordingly. February 18, 2008 (Rajesh Bindal) Pka Judge