In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-6331 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:28.1.2010 Krishan Kumar .....Petitioner v. State of Haryana and another .....Respondent .... Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. Rajeev K. Takkar, Additional Advocate General, Haryana for the respondent-State. None for the complainant-respondent No.2. ..... S.S. Saron, J. The petition has been filed seeking quashing of the FIR (Annexure-P.3) and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom or in the alternative for directing the parties to appear before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre in order to facilitate compromise between the parties and quashing of FIR on the basis thereof. The case was taken up before the Mediation Centre functioning in the High Court. In terms of proceedings recorded on 16.12.2009 it is mentioned that no settlement could be arrived at in the mediation proceedings. The case has accordingly been returned to this Court. Today, when the case has been taken up, no one is present on behalf of the petitioner or the complainant (respondent No.2). The primary ground taken for seeking quashing of the FIR is that an effort could be made Cr. Misc. No.M-6331 of 2009 [2] for compromising the matter, which could not be done. In the connected petition (Criminal Misc. No.M-318 of 2009) seeking pre-arrest bail, learned counsel for the State, on instructions from ASI Satbir Singh, Police Station Salhawas, District Jhajjar, has submitted that the petitioner has joined the investigation and his custody is not required for the purpose of investigation. Since the custody of the petitioner is not required, the interim bail granted on 8.1.2009 in the said petition has been made absolute. In the circumstances, nothing survives in the present petition. The petitioner may raise his contentions on merits before the learned trial Court. Accordingly, the criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. January 28, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*