Criminal Misc. No. 42053-M of 2007 -1- *** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 42053-M of 2007 Date of decision : February 18, 2008 Charan Singh and others .....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Rajiv K. Kapila, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Anter Singh Brar, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for respondent No. 1. Mr. Sunil Agnihotri, 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. 16 dated January 17, 2007 registered under Sections 498-A and 323 IPC at Police Station, Tanda District Hoshiarpur and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the dispute between the parties has been settled amicably by way of compromise, which has been reduced in writing. Copy thereof is placed on record as Annexure P-2. Affidavit of the complainant has also been placed on record as Annexure P-3 in which complainant while admitting the factum of compromise, stated that the FIR got registered by him be filed to office and he does not want to take any action against the petitioners. 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. Learned counsel for respondent-complainant submits that after the matter having been compromised between the parties, daughter of respondent no.2-complainant is happily living in the family of the Criminal Misc. No. 42053-M of 2007 -2- *** petitioners and there is no grouse subsisting as on today. 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 Singh's case (supra), FIR No. 16 dated January 17, 2007 registered under Sections 498-A and 323 IPC at Police Station, Tanda District Hoshiarpur and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom are quashed. The petition is disposed of accordingly. February 18, 2008 (Rajesh Bindal) Pka Judge