IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH Crl.Misc. No.M-30880 of 2008 Date of Decision: January 27, 2009 Deepak Kapoor and others ...........Petitioners Versus State of Punjab & another ..........Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mrs.Justice Sabina Present: Mr. B.R.Rana, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Amandeep Singh Rai, AAG Punjab for respondent No.1 Ms. Poonam Sharma, Advocate for respondent No.2 ** Sabina, J. Petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure praying for quashing of the FIR No 26 dated 17.4.2006 (Annexure P1) registered at Police Station Division No.3, Ludhiana under Sections 406,498-A, 307, 313, 328, 323,341, 354, 506, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (`IPC' for short). Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that with the intervention of the relatives and friends, complainant-respondent No.2 had arrived at a compromise with the petitioners. Respondents No. 1 and 2 have filed their replies separately and the same are taken on record. In the reply filed by respondent No.2, the contents of the compromise have been admitted. It has been further averred in the reply filed by respondent No.2, by way of an affidavit, that she has no objection, if the FIR in question is quashed as she had started living with her husband- petitioner No.1 (Deepak Kapoor). Crl.Misc. No.M-30880 of 2008 -2- As per the Full Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh and others vs. State of Punjab, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052, High Court has power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to allow the compounding of non- compoundable offence and quash the prosecution where the High Court felt that the same was required to prevent the abuse of the process of any Court or to otherwise secure the ends of justice. This power of quashing is not confined to matrimonial disputes alone. Since the petitioner No.1 and complainant have arrived at a compromise and started residing as husband and wife, no useful purpose would be served by proceeding further with the FIR in question. Accordingly, this petition is allowed. The FIR No. 26 dated 17.4.2006 (Annexure P1) registered at Police Station Division No.3, Ludhiana under Sections 406, 498-A, 307, 313, 328, 323,341, 354, 506, 120-B IPC and charge-sheet dated 4.10.2006 (Annexure P2) and all further proceedings in consequence thereto are quashed. ( Sabina ) Judge January 27, 2009 arya