IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 36742 of 2009(O&M) Date of Decision: 26.04.2010. Surinder Aggarwal and another. ...... PETITIONERS Versus State of Punjab and another. ...... RESPONDENTS CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr. Harman Sullar, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG, Punjab. Mr. Sandeep Khunger, 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.154, dated 21.08.2009 under Section 420 IPC registered at P.S. Khanna, Annexure P1, and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom. 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 CRM No.M-36742 of 2009 settled. It has also been stated that petitioner No.2 and respondent No.2 have already sought divorce by mutual consent as per the compromise. Respondent No.2 has also appeared in the Court and stated that he is having no objection if the FIR and consequential proceedings are quashed. He has also filed reply in this regard. 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 case Kulwinder Singh v State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR (Crl.) 1052. Since the dispute between the parties was primarily matrimonial in nature and the same has been amicably settled and the parties have also sought divorce by mutual consent, the present petition is accepted and the impugned FIR No. 154, dated 21.08.2009 under Section 420 IPC registered at P.S. Khanna, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners is, hereby, quashed. ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) April 26, 2010. JUDGE 'om' 2