Criminal Misc. No. 25882 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 25882 of 2009 Date of decision: November 16, 2009 Lehmber Ram & others -Petitioners Versus State of Punjab & another -Respondents Coram Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. AS Gill, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Shilesh Gupta, DAG, Punjab. HS Dhindsa, Advocate, for complainant/respondent No.2. Rajan Gupta, J.(Oral) The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No. 71 dated 28-03-2009 (Annexure P-1) under Sections 406,498-A IPC, registered at police station Adampur, District Jalandhar and the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties. Gurvinder Kaur, Complainant/respondent No.2 is present in Court. She is duly identified by her counsel. She has admitted the factum of compromise dated 24.5.2009 (Annexure P-2) arrived between her and the petitioners. She has also filed reply by way of an affidavit in court today, which is taken on record as Mark 'A'. According to her reply, she has separated from petitioner No.1 by a decree of divorce dated 4.11.2009. She states that she has no objection if the present FIR is quashed. Learned State counsel submits that since the parties have Criminal Misc. No. 25882 of 2009 2 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, which would be a futile exercise. 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 November 16, 2009. 'ask'