IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 31588 of 2010(O&M) Date of Decision: December 16, 2010. Rinku Kumar and others. ...... PETITIONER(s) Versus State of Punjab and another. ...... RESPONDENT (s) CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr. Nakul Sharma, Advocate for the petitioners. Ms. Bhavna Gupta, D.A.G., Punjab. Mr. Paramjit Singh Cheema, Advocate for respondent No.2. ***** RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of FIR No.160 dated 23.07.2010 under Sections 406/498-A IPC, registered at Police Station City Ferozepur, District Ferozepur, Annexure P1, and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise, having been entered into between the parties. CRM No.M-31588 of 2010 I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record. It has been stated by learned counsel for the parties that dispute between the parties is matrimonial in nature and the same has since been settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives from both the sides and that petitioner No.1 and respondent No.2 –complainant started living together. Both the parties were directed to appear before learned trial Court with further direction that report be sent as to whether compromise voluntarily entered into. Report has been received after recording statements of the parties by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ferozepur to the effect that compromise effected between the parties is genuine one. Respondent No.2 – complainant also appeared in person with her counsel admitting the factum of compromise and stating that she is having no objection if the FIR and consequential proceedings are quashed. In appropriate cases FIR can be quashed on the basis of compromise by exercising power under Section 482 Cr.P.C., even if the offences are not compoundable. It was so held by Full Bench of this Court in the case of Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR (Crl.) 1052. Since the parties have amicably settled the matter, which is matrimonial in nature and compromise has been effected between them due to intervention of the respectable persons and relatives, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No. 160 dated 23.07.2010 under Sections 406/498-A IPC, 2 CRM No.M-31588 of 2010 registered at Police Station City Ferozepur, District Ferozepur, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners –Rinku Kumar, Tinu, Kanta Devi and Dharam Pal is, hereby, quashed. ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) December 16, 2010. JUDGE 'om' 3